Some of our life experience makes us weary of love and make it difficult to forgive others.

I don't know what I want, but I do know that I don't want the usual stuff, the cliched stuff is just too mind-numbing. They sell, I know, but it makes me sad to know that.

I'm not a big fan of just cultivating an image.

I can never go back to a workspace where there's no dignity.

No matter how big or new they are, I always look for the intention of the filmmaker first. Their intention has to be in the right place.

I remember I was in my ninth grade, and I was smitten by Sushmita Sen, the way she carried herself, her interviews, and, of course, her movies.

I am quite content with my work in Malayalam cinema, and so there was never any reason to look outside for opportunities.

My mother had sent my picture for a TV contest seeking anchors, and I won.

I know how difficult it is to learn languages, since I am working in three regional industries in South India, and unless the director wants my voice to be dubbed, I do my own dubbing.

I am not the kind of person who shouts out.

I've been an actor since the age of seventeen.

I have worked with big actors, but honestly, I don't judge the viability of a project on the basis of the star value attached to it.

If you're talking about industry, I've never restricted myself to Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, or Kannada. Whichever the language is, from Swahili to Marathi or Bhojpuri to Bengali, I would be happy to do it.

There is casting couch in the Malayalam industry.

Sometimes, the actual feeling of loving someone takes a back seat because we are busy defining it.

I don't mind playing a supporting character if it has some substance.

Bollywood marketing is larger-than-life. Honestly, it amuses me.

I would want the audience to simply see the character I portray in each movie in its true essence because I feel acting is all about truthfully portraying the character.

How sad is that life when a man thinks that his manliness comes with asking sexual favours from a woman. That's the saddest way of being a man.

Women need to tell their stories from their experiences, and that may not mean that it would be all stories with women as protagonists.

We need women in cinema to know first that they have a safe space to open up about their struggles without being judged and marginalised.

I discovered that there was no difference between playing a real-life character and a fictional one.

The only kind of influence I want to be on anyone is by being, constantly and consistently, someone who probes herself at every juncture, improves the way in which she functions as a citizen, and questions the status quo.

Even with me, there are so many things I have bottled up.