Top 63 Quotes & Sayings by Freida Pinto

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

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

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.

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

I love going into a country and just blending.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I like working on big budget films.

I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.

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.'

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

I'm a human being before anything else.

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

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.

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

Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.

I feel being an actress is probably not half as difficult as being a mother, and I do not know when I will be ready for that kind of a decision.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.'

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

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.

I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin.

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

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.

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

I'm glad I'm a strong person.

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.

I definitely need to date someone who is calm.

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

I feel that all of us can contribute something, and it doesn't have to be money. It can just be service or talent.

I think the reason why I haven't done a film in India so far is because I haven't found a script that's completely gotten my attention and made me passionate to get it made. I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India. The reason why I'm making movies outside my country, bit by bit, is to be able to come back to India equipped with the knowledge and understanding of how to hopefully produce my own films one fine day.

I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.

So many people giving you so many opinions about how you look. It's hard for me to gauge what people are sometimes getting at. This brings up my suspicious side. I feel you just have to be confident with yourself. I feel topics like, "Oh, she looks beautiful today" or "She looks a mess today without her makeup"-that's always going to come my way, so I just think it's all about self-confidence.

I think it's important to know yourself before you try to deal with a relationship.

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else.

I think when you have doubts, you just say no.

It always feels great to be at the start of something new. It's almost like a revolution, in a way.

More than anything else, if you can spend a great deal of dedicated time observing people without judgment, that can be a great way of learning.

I find it very hard to say yes or no quite openly, because people are never satisfied. One day they write us off as saying we're not together and the next day we're together and getting married.

Awareness is very, very important because we're living in a world which is literally shrinking by the day. We are global citizens. So, for us not to be aware of what's happening to our neighbor is almost sad. Once you're aware, then you can decide what cause you want to dedicate your time to.

I didn't really enjoy modeling in Bombay. I floated through it in the hopes that I would get my ticket to the next big thing. There was no real joy that I got out of it, to be really honest.

The only thing I can pride myself on is making a really good breakfast.

Young women who want an education will not be stopped

As the worlds getting filled with temptations, were getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.

It's not that difficult to say no when you don't want to do something.

Growing up in Bombay made me immune to culture shock, in a way. So, culture shock is not part of my DNA.

When we know that educating a girl can change the world, why wait?