Quotes from Freida Pinto

I like working on big budget films.

I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way.

I feel that all of us can contribute something, and it doesn't have to be money. It can just be service or talent.

I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.

I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.

I wouldn't want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. For some reason I think Bollywood has become synonymous with commercial cinema, which is song and dance and everything that is larger than life, and I am interested in the reality.

I think it's important to know yourself before you try to deal with a relationship.

I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.

I definitely need to date someone who is calm.

I'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving.

As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.

Here's another secret - I have really big feet. I'm a size ten, so every opportunity I get I buy myself shoes.

In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like 'Gone With the Wind.' And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there's something so absolutely romantic about it.

In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary.

I've learned to develop a thick skin, but you're bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it's rubbed in your face over and over.

There's one disturbing notion throughout India that light skin is more attractive than dark.

More than anything else, if you can spend a great deal of dedicated time observing people without judgment, that can be a great way of learning.

I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.

I've never told anyone this before, but I'm an obsessive-compulsive. I go back to my hotel room every evening and put the coat hangers back in order and open my bag and rearrange it. It takes a lot of my time, but if I don't do it I can't sleep.

I'm a human being before anything else.

All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'

I am very direct, to the point that I think I might make people uncomfortable! I do not know how not to be direct. I don't think there's time to waste.

I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.

A lot of the younger Indian generation are either IT geniuses or doctors - the number of doctors I've seen in L.A. who are Indian is just crazy. So it is a very common thing. Or an accountant! That again is a very, very big thing.