Quotes from Mahira Khan

I'm the poster child for cyber bullying. It's hurtful.

I don't think that I can tell any story better than the story of my own country, than the stories of my own countrymen.

Empowering women with better education, being sensitive towards their wellbeing, health, happiness, ensuring equal opportunities, and respecting their rights will go a long way in transforming Pakistan.

I just want to do the best work wherever I go. It could be here in Pakistan or India or anywhere else.

My first priority is my child.

I romanticise every moment of my life, and that is why I have fallen in love with life.

The truth is that we have all gone through failure. I have personally as well as professionally experienced failure.

You don't feel good about being criticised, especially when you've been loved so much.

I have been lucky with the people that I've worked with - and I have worked with very few people.

Everyone goes through things; everyone has a story. That's why strangers are so interesting. I don't find a single human being boring, man.

I have dealt with criticism from my first drama, and I think that is a part of our profession. It brings me down but definitely pushes me to do better.

When we show our flaws, we show the world that we don't look pretty all the time.

I became an actor only as a result of Madhuri Dixit. I was watching 'Ram Lakhan,' and her song 'Bada dukh dina' started playing. The minute I saw it, I told my mother, 'I wish to accomplish it. I desire to be on TV.'

I like watching a 'Ram Leela.' I like my dance and song.

The price of wisdom is innocence. So, I have definitely become wiser but sadly a little less innocent.

No matter how tough my life was, I was always looking up at the sky and wishing for good things.

Now, I realise that love is peace. Love is when you are with somebody, and it's okay, and you don't have to talk. Their presence is important.

The fact is I've always been such a big Bollywood fan, from the time I was very young. I remember I'd watch new Bollywood films every Thursday night on a video cassette.

I wish I had gone to Cannes with a film, but I had gone there for L'Oreal Pakistan. I cannot tell you the people that I was around, from Helen Mirren to Jane Fonda. It was a proud moment on the red carpet when they announced my name and said 'Mahira Khan from Pakistan.'

I loved 'Highway.' It was amazing. I have watched Imtiaz Ali's other films, too, and he is one of my favourite Bollywood directors, besides Vishal Bhardwaj and Mani Ratnam.

After watching Guru Dutt's films, I became a huge fan of Sahir Ludhianvi's poetry and the songs of Guru Dutt's films.

If people can come out of 'Bin Roye' feeling even just a little bit of what this character felt, and touched your heart, that's enough for me.

I do feel it's tougher to make a comic scene work than performing an intense scene, for example.

The Lux girl is every girl as far as I'm concerned. She can be shy, confident, boisterous, elegant, or clumsy.