Quotes About Diversity

We should release films without revealing the director's name, as his or her gender would not be a barometer to watch those films.

If two-three films of mine release at the same time and if all of them feel like they are from the same lyricist then something is not quite right. The language of all has to be different if they are different stories.

You're never going to release the next album and have it be different from your other two, three, four, five albums. People give them a hard time, but it's like, 'I'm an artist, I'm trying to grow. I don't want to have the same album for 10 albums in a row!' Same thing for a martial artist.

It would be interesting to explore an opportunity if Hindi filmmakers think I can fit into any character in a film.

Language is not a barrier, specially Hindi. It is the only language I read, write and speak in and so it is far easier than South Indian languages.

I have been constantly working. It's just that it has not been only Hindi films.

I know people know me as the 'white baddie' of Hindi cinema.

There are quality films being made in all languages, whether in Hindi cinema, Bengali or the south. Bollywood doesn't represent Indian cinema, per say.

I watch lots of movies, both English and Hindi.

I don't differentiate between films and TV, particularly Hindi serials.

Tamil films have to be faster than a Malayalam film but not as fast as a Hindi film.

I'm determined to not let my skin colour or the fact that I come from Africa be a hindrance.

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

I am proud to be the first Hindu American to have been elected to Congress and now the first Hindu American to run for president.

I am a Hindu, brought up mostly in India.

The DNA of a true Hindu is liberal. We are, by essence, liberal.

The real Hindu vision is that nobody will be discriminated against or favoured. Everyone is equal.

My husband is as much a proud Muslim as I am a proud Hindu. That's the beauty of our nation - and our marriage, too.

I was born to a Hindu father and Muslim mother on Christmas day. You can't get more secular than that.

As for my stand, I think it has become difficult in our country to be a Hindu and a liberal at the same time.

If our Hindu culture forbids beef meat, does the same culture give you the right to abuse me and my family just because I have an opinion that you don't agree with?

One has to inculcate a feeling that if I build a road, then a Hindu or a Muslim or a Parsi or a Christian can walk on that road. We all have equal right to share water, electricity, or road.

I am a proud Hindu, but that doesn't I mean I disrespect others' religion.

We Hindus have a long-recognised tradition of being religious liberals by nature.