The one thing I have discovered is that we all have challenges; the challenges vary, but our response to the challenges makes us people we are.

I handle my home beautifully. However, I am not just my husband's name.

I am never going to stop evolving and growing.

Being pregnant is a wonderful thing. I have never understood why people make such a big deal of it though.

People wonder why a man and woman can't be friends after being in love. It is because it's very tough to look beyond the hurt and try to find a common ground to be friends. It's it like a healing wound.

If you are a woman and an actor, it does not mean that you have to contain or limit yourself to just being that.

When I started out, at 19, I was told, by the media and the film industry to do a certain kind of films and work with certain kind of stars. Coming from a non-filmi background, I did not know how to go about it, as there were different people trying to push me in various directions.

I chase dreams that fulfill me and not a dream that somebody else describes to me.

It is extremely empowering when you are making fundamental and critical decisions on different levels of production, till the final showcase on the screen.

I think the ability to empathize with another person's experience and go into the trajectory of their journey is challenging.

It is important for the film industry to rise above ageism.

Roles for women need to be better written.

For any female actor, the age between 35 to 45 is treacherous. Filmmakers tell me, I am at that awkward age. No parts are written for women in this age bracket, while men at that age flourish and have great careers.

If you are asking me whether I would want to have kids, I would say obviously I want them. It's only natural after a certain phase in life.

Every child must have a childhood they deserve. But unfortunately, millions of children are deprived childhood and their dreams crushed under the burden of poverty.

Every person has the ability to influence change. I am grateful that my voice counts, and I am able to influence change. But more than that, there is a certain amount of activism that is engrained in me.

I look for gravitas and substance that can outlast the theatrical experience.

I have always believed that cinema is one of the greatest instruments of positive social change. Stories can be light, engaging and poignant, but they need to say something.

It takes a lot of drive to succeed as an independent producer.

I have always expressed my opinion fearlessly. To not express the truth is far more frightening.

People all over the globe love to see women in a sari. I always love to be draped in one as well.

As a child, I remember seeing what a struggle it was for both my parents to accommodate and adjust to the idea of not being together. They cared for each other deeply; they loved each other. They just couldn't stay together because they wanted different things from life and sometimes, it happens.

My stepfather was an exemplary human being. It took me a lot of time to accept him as a parent. But what he did intelligently was he befriended me.

I lost my biological father when I was 9, I lost my stepfather at 23. Both men had such a deep impact in my understanding of life.

Failure at the box office of some of my earlier films led to a lack of opportunity to play main lead in good films.

I only want to be part of movies that I believe in and I have no regrets.

I have always wanted to make a movie, in fact I always wanted to direct someday. But I never thought I would be a producer.

When you are an actor you are a very small part of a very large scheme of things.

Working with a female director has great perks.

I am so glad to have found a sister in Sonam Nair. She makes work such a joy.

My personal style is classic. So a classic element will always find its way into everything I wear.

I get bored of training easily. I constantly need something to invigorate me, which will get me to hit the gym.

I have enough make-up to last me five lifetimes.

One doesn't have to be an activist and start a movement.

I feel that if you are a creative person, you choose various mediums to give vent to your ideas.

I cannot write a novel because I cannot work in continuity. My works are more abstract, may be, I will try short story writing.

Well, now I would like to kidnap Johnny Depp and yes, Ranbir Kapoor for sure.

I should thank my parents for my beauty. It's in my genes.

I love being in front of the camera but I love the fact that I have more control as a producer.

It takes a lot to be a part of a film and as an artist, I want to be a part of subjects that makes me feel happy and that's become a big priority for me.

Digital shows have played a big part in empowering female artists. I'm very lucky to be a part of such projects.

Theatrical experience will always be the norm in India. In fact, as a producer and as an actor, I always hope that the magnum opus theatrical experience should always continue.

I understand its fun to watch a web series up close to your chest is something else, but to see it on a bigger screen and to experience the emotions is magical.

I have grown up on a diet of sunrise picnics, learning the names of butterflies, planting trees.

I have never stored water in plastic bottles, always in glass, steel or copper bottles and containers. I even carry my own water to work, and refill bottles for drinking.

I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that plastic! So I switched to bamboo toothbrushes years ago.

It really doesn't matter whether it's an ensemble cast or it's a lead or what is perceived as a commercial or non-commercial or an offbeat film. None of that would matter, what really matters is the story and who's telling the story.

Nature is actually the greatest democracy in the world.

I want to go back to the '80s, wish India could go back to '80s, when life was simple.

It was extraordinary living in Mumbai, navigating my course, understanding how to manage my finances on my own, mapping out my daily expenses.