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'But it was dicey as he was still in jail.'

'There is an eminently fertile ground that perpetrators must be finding in our society.'

'Later, I asked Hrithik how he could have remained so calm in the circumstances. He told me simply, "What could have happened? At the most, they would have killed me".'

'It would have made (Producer) Ramesh Taurani very happy if I taken two Bombay stars, but the reason why I kept mentally rejecting the regular sort of casting was to discover this excitement, you know, can I crack it?'

'Ranbir helped me a lot with emotions and dialogues. As an actor, he makes us very secure.''He guides us with his experiences. He makes the work really, really easy and wonderful for his co-stars.'

'This was a film, a story that had never been told before.'

'You are constantly trying to get things made. You keep meeting people, knocking on their door. And time goes by.'

'Since God was being shown in live action on such a large scale, Prasanth was initially sceptical about going with an animated character.'

'When something like this happens, it's just like all the weight and all the time that there was no work and the auditions were not cracking, you feel it's just worth it.'

Mamata Shankar remembers the amazing actor Sreela Majumdar, who passed into the ages last week.

'People started noticing me again. OTT is a good platform for serious actors. In the olden days, unless you are the heroine, actors would have screen deaths. But now, there are so many good roles for women.'

'I went to a school in Baroda, where if the boys harassed us, the teachers pulled the girls aside and said, "Oh, your skirts are too short".' 'They made us feel ashamed of having any sexual feelings or having bodies that were growing up to be a young women.'

'There was this music director who approached me for a song. He called me to his house for practice.''I took my mother with me and I felt he did not like that.''It took me a while to gauge his intentions.''That really scarred me.'

'She got really close, and I was like, oh Miss Universe and me dancing!'

'You make a song, it gets rejected, you have to make 10 more.'

'We need to understand and respect wildlife behaviour.'

'Television actors are people who play with fire.'

'The fact that I got noticed in a film that stars Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone is a big high for me.'

'I thought of a suppressed country and a free world.''If we travel from one to another, what will that road look like?''What colours, music there will be? What kind of people would you see?'

'Every actor's journey is unique.''It's beautiful but also terrifying because you have to carve your own path.''So if there's somebody to talk it through, it's nice.'

'One day, just like that, without even saying goodbye, he was gone.'

'I am a very greedy actor. I want to explore everything.'

'I was very keen to make another film and I was dying to say action and cut and get back into creating characters and creating worlds.''But I just didn't have a script I was happy with.''I was working every day on the writing and I was struggling with that.'

'Life had its own plans and now I have learnt to go with the flow.'

'When one is low, all you can do is buckle up and get up and prepare for the next challenge.'

'Everybody has their bit of struggles and learnings. It will only end when you stop breathing.'

'On the set, Ranveer and I got along really well. Ten days after the release, Ranveer messaged me and said, you have killed the scene! For someone like him to message me just says how supportive person he is of newcomers.'

'The government wants to ban surrogacy and take away women's fundamental right to do what she wants with her body.'

'I never had any nakhras, never threw tantrums, so I got along with all my heroes.'

'I am a spontaneous actor. I follow what works for the character.'

'When you are new, you don't know how the industry works'. 'But when you know where you are headed, the possibilities of being conned or facing unpleasant instances is reduced.'

'One told me there that she had been abused by her father when she was nine years old. The other when she was 12.''In all these years, they had not been able to confide about it to their mothers or even their husbands.'

'In India, I'm able to work with the biggest stars on creating a scene, creating that emotion, without being too hung up on their persona.'

'I received many threatening calls and letters.''A fatwa was issued against me.'

'Laapataa Ladies opened a lot of doors for me.''I have gotten so much love from audiences and seniors in the industry that it's overwhelming.''I get calls from superstars. I'm holding my heart and it's like, "Oh my God, they are calling me? I am their fan and they love my work!"'

'Personal reasons required me to take some time off.'

'When you walk on to a Sanjay Leela Bhansali set, it is complete surrender. You have to become a sponge.'

'The world needs Gandhi now more than any other time in history.'

'Before every scene, Sanjay Leela Bhansali would play two or three songs over and over again, especially when Sharmin and I would shoot, because it invoked his emotion. One of the songs was from The Last Samurai. Everything is in rhythm for him. If he doesn't have that rhythm in place, then something is off.'

'I believed that no matter what happened, I would be there to take care of him.''He believed it too and even when he fell ill, he had total faith in me, ki main sab theek kar doongi.''I tried, I really tried, but I fell short and he went away.'

'You treat me like eye candy and I will leave you like you're a wrapper.'

'People are saying, 'Wah Ustad!''

'While I was performing it, I had a weird feeling that people would love it because it's so bizarre.'

'I have nostalgia for Ladakhi culture, which is common to both Muslims and Buddhists.''It is kind of a Buddhist way of life. You are compassionate and nice to each other.''You are good human beings.'

'Since we are in the same party now, there has to be political camaraderie if nothing more.'

'Money was pouring in after Movers & Shakers. At the turn of the millennium, I was voted one of the top 10 Mumbaikars. People joked that even when they switched off their TV sets, I was there! I would ask God if he was compensating me for the loss of Ayush, the greatest tragedy of my life.'

'Hope is about being more accepting of each other, the kind of solidarity and friendship that even our families may not be able to give.'

'If there is an artiste somewhere in India or in the world who wants to express her art, I hoped that this award would inspire them, and add meaning to their journey.'

'The real change will happen when more powerful roles come to me.''I am looking forward to that change.'