Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.

I haven't had my teeth fixed, I haven't had a hair transplant. I haven't had a skin peel, tummy tuck. I've done literally nothing.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.

'Mr. India' was a turning point. Before that, Hindi moviegoers saw me just as a glamour girl. After 'Mr. India,' they felt I could act.

I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.

We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.