Quotes from Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

For me, it's not about breaking big in Hollywood, but having interesting experiences.

I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.

I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.

Even in Indian cinema, there is so much work that I have accepted because I'm comfortable and so much I have declined because I haven't been comfortable.

I am really OK with the way I look. It's fine. All this is transient. I mean, it's really, you know, it changes with time, and that's the external.

I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself in all these years on the public platform.

I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops.

I have a great story to tell... and I tell it well. No holds barred.

Aishwarya, my parent's daughter, has been brought up with enough values inculcated where I will use my discretion in my choices. At the same time, I recognize I am an actor, I am an artist, and if I feel the need to be liberated and do the kind of work I need to do, I will.

The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the various facets of creativity to be explored.

Beauty is transient and changes with time.

By virtue of my job, I'm traveling. You get to spend very little time with your family. We hardly get to meet each other except on the one odd day we really get to spend time, have dinner together. And that's rare, and we cherish it.

The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.

My family is my strength and my weakness.