Quotes from Mahima Chaudhry

If dinner needs to be served to the father, if clothes need to be ironed, parents ask the girl to do it, not the boy. Why? Equality needs to begin at home.

My choice for life partner has been pathetic. So, I have told my mother to look into it.

I've always worked with new directors. 'Pyar Koi Khel Nahin' with Sunny Deol, Anupam Kher's debut film 'Om Jai Jagdish,' and Niraj Vohra's 'Khiladi' were all first-time films.

Movies are my pill. I can talk non-stop about them.

Every time I go on stage, it's like living my childhood dream, so it's really great.

You do a lot of movies, then you let others do it when you go and perform another role in life. When you again return to acting it shouldn't be taken as their comeback.

When a director is making a movie after four years, it's not considered his comeback. It should be same with actors.

My struggle began after my first film, post a success, post a jubilee of so many weeks.

With a child, it was difficult to take up films, as it would have consumed a lot of time.

It's very tough playing a real life character in a controversial story.

I wish I had taken some dance classes; I would love to be a female Hrithik Roshan.

The government should take a decision on whether to allow Pakistani actors in India or not, but I think directors and producers will themselves not cast Pakistani actors seeing the kind of opposition the country is witnessing against them.

I started judging a few television shows, making appearances at functions or cutting ribbons because it was convenient for me. It also gave me quick and good money. Now, when I look back, I feel those assignments ruined me as an actress.

More than films, endorsements and dance shows and attending functions or appearing in any shows brings more money.

It's been quite some time now since I've been deejaying. And, I think I can play music well.

I came back and started living with my parents, and you depend a lot on your parents. That was the time when my mother was diagnosed with an illness; she needed help and she could not be of that great help for raising my child.

After marriage, I was only concerned about raising my daughter, Ariana. I didn't want to miss her even for a second. I thought that's the best phase of my life, and I was enjoying it, far more than films.

When I go to speak at schools, I speak to mothers and fathers, because the way we are raising kids in our country is wrong.

I will go in for a divorce if I plan to get married again.

It was wonderful working with Kundan Shah. He is a very good director.

I met a lot of people in Kolkata who said Sanjiv Khanna is a wonderful, well-spoken man.

What could be addictive about the limelight is the recognition that you gain. Can you imagine the feeling you experience when the whole country looks up to you? When you become a source of inspiration for millions?

Yes, it did look like 'where did she go?' I was hiding.

Ariana has completed me. I felt I'd lived all my high points, till the baby came and life's been on a high ever since. It feels like with her I'm discovering innocence all over again.