Freida Pinto Quotes

All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'

- Freida Pinto

In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like 'Gone With the Wind.' And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there's something so absolutely romantic about it.

- Freida Pinto

As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.

- Freida Pinto

I'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving.

- Freida Pinto

I don't think Bollywood is only mindless cinema, but a lot of films they churn out are not films that I completely enjoy watching.

- Freida Pinto

I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin.

- Freida Pinto

A lot of the younger Indian generation are either IT geniuses or doctors - the number of doctors I've seen in L.A. who are Indian is just crazy. So it is a very common thing. Or an accountant! That again is a very, very big thing.

- Freida Pinto

Indian celebrities have the media and fans permanently outside their homes, and that would make me really uncomfortable.

- Freida Pinto

I wouldn't want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. For some reason I think Bollywood has become synonymous with commercial cinema, which is song and dance and everything that is larger than life, and I am interested in the reality.

- Freida Pinto

If a cream can give you confidence then you really have to check your whole confidence department in the first place.

- Freida Pinto

I've never told anyone this before, but I'm an obsessive-compulsive. I go back to my hotel room every evening and put the coat hangers back in order and open my bag and rearrange it. It takes a lot of my time, but if I don't do it I can't sleep.

- Freida Pinto

I think even the most beautiful person looks stupid on Skype.

- Freida Pinto

I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.

- Freida Pinto

I like working on big budget films.

- Freida Pinto

I tell you why I like Chanel so much: when I started off, no one wanted to give me clothes to wear. Absolutely no one! All the labels said, 'Who is she?' But Chanel believed in me from the very beginning.

- Freida Pinto

When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.

- Freida Pinto

I find it very interesting these days that films are bringing in so many people of different ethnicities, and I'm proud to be a part of that cultural shift.

- Freida Pinto

Everything big-budget or stereotypical I was offered after 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a huge no-no.

- Freida Pinto

I've learned to develop a thick skin, but you're bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it's rubbed in your face over and over.

- Freida Pinto

I love going into a country and just blending.

- Freida Pinto

In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary.

- Freida Pinto

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.

- Freida Pinto

I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.

- Freida Pinto

Here's another secret - I have really big feet. I'm a size ten, so every opportunity I get I buy myself shoes.

- Freida Pinto

There's one disturbing notion throughout India that light skin is more attractive than dark.

- Freida Pinto

I actually didn't mind school, and I enjoyed university and college.

- Freida Pinto

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

- Freida Pinto

I'm glad I'm a strong person.

- Freida Pinto

I did not particularly enjoy modeling. I felt I was only utilizing 10 or 20 percent of my abilities. In India, it's just another job.

- Freida Pinto

I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.

- Freida Pinto

I absolutely love London; it is one of my favourite cities in the world.

- Freida Pinto

I definitely need to date someone who is calm.

- Freida Pinto

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

- Freida Pinto

I went to an all-girls' Christian convent school run by nuns. It was fun, but when I was 15, I said, 'Mum, that's it - I need to go where there are some boys.'

- Freida Pinto

One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.

- Freida Pinto

Of course I'm going to marry, but I don't know when.

- Freida Pinto

I'm a human being before anything else.

- Freida Pinto

I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.

- Freida Pinto

I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way.

- Freida Pinto