Quotes About Identity

Even Bollywood films set in rural areas have music with a western touch. So, this has resulted in listeners losing touch with their cultural roots.

I had started with Bollywood and then I shifted to Bhojpuri films to create my own identity there.

For Ananya, It's Bollywood all the way. She was obsessed about it, I thought there was something wrong with her. She was good at academics, so I thought she would become a doctor like my both parents. But, when she got to class VI or so I knew she would be an actress.

I don't want to go to Bollywood just to prove I've worked there.

I'm tired of telling people what Bollywood is.

Bollywood didn't know what to do with me. And I didn't know what to do with it, because I didn't want to do its kind of films.

I was too foreign-looking for Bollywood.

People just never saw me beyond my looks. Being good looking sometimes works against you in Bollywood.

I don't want to be Usain Bolt.

I won't say I'm the new Usain Bolt, I'm the new Christian Coleman.

I don't really know anything about my dad. I don't really know too much about his background. He's Jamaican and Jamaicans are usually more athletic. You've seen Usain Bolt.

People would be amazed that I've grown up in Bombay and not Banaras.

I am a Bombay girl.

Bombay always felt home.

I am happy being a bombshell, the image has worked for me.

San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.

Being eternally known as Bond has no downside.

There is something about being people from your home country in a different country. It bonds you together.

I didn't think nobody knew I listened to Bone Thugs-n-Harmony.

I can tell you that anyone who knows me knows that there is not a racial bone in my body.

Europe has been in my bones.

I have little bones.

I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones as soon as you are able to understand this country... My approach to life about race is, I don't see the difference between black people and white people.

If you feel you have made a great piece of work, which the script for 'The Lovely Bones' was, and that it suddenly means nothing, it's like being in the land of the lost. You don't know what's good or bad and what anything means.