Priyanka Chopra Quotes

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It's a terrible thing to say, and I probably shouldn't

It’s a terrible thing to say, and I probably shouldn’t say it, but I’m a lazy person when it comes to physical exertion. I don’t like gyms unless I need to for a movie or a part or a show.
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I have never had a plan when it comes to my career: America came to me with an opportunity.
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I am a very private person. No one ever knows anything about me as I don’t think it is necessary. I tell people as much as I want them to know about me.
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I am a little – I won‘t say arrogant – self-assured.
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When I’m not shooting, I don’t wear much makeup. I just moisturize and maybe put on a berry-colored balm on my lips and cheeks, and then mascara – that’s it. My face and hair gets abused every single day, so I try take it easy on off days.
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The best part of working on ‘Baywatch‘ is to be the villain of the movie. I don’t think The Rock, aka Dwayne Johnson, has ever had anyone who‘s been mean to him.
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I have great Indian genes! You know, I’m lazy. I want to take advantage of the fact that I have a great metabolism. When I start getting fat, I’ll work on it! I like food, and I don’t like the gym, and as long as I look like this without doing anything, why bother?
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When I won Miss World, I wasn’t even 18, and I only remember, like, I thought of it as a day in the races or something. It didn’t feel like it was Miss World of the Millennium Year, the change of the century. I didn’t understand the magnitude of it for at least a couple of years.
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I’ve shot all over the world with crews from all over the world. The work ethic is the same. Bollywood is my career; it’s what I do.
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To be a philanthropist, you don’t have to be Nelson Mandela. You just have to look around you and ask, ‘What little bit can I do? Whose life can I touch?’
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After every bath, I make sure to moisturize my entire body. I’m obsessed with Diptyque: people love their candles, but their body products are also amazing.
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I was bullied by a freshman named Jeanine. She was black and supremely racist. Jeanine used to say, ‘Brownie, go back to your country. You smell of curry,’ or ‘Do you smell curry coming?’
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I got into the movies by accident. When I got an offer, I thought, ‘Let’s try this, too.’ Everything in my life has happened by trial and error. I didn’t even think I would win the Miss India title, so where‘s the question of thinking I’d come this far.
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I think there’s a social responsibility that comes with a public platform. Because of the position that I’ve been put in, I think it’s important to use my voice to do as much as I can.
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When I became Miss World, movie offers started coming to me in India.
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Production is a lot of work. Nobody sent me that memo when they came to me to do television.
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I like bad boys, and I like to take them home to my mom.
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I live with romance in my brain. I’m a true-blue Cancerian like that.
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I always get stopped by security and immigration, telling me, ‘Tell me who the terrorist is, or we won’t stamp your passport!’ The last time that somebody did that to me – at LAX, actually – I was like, ‘Hey, don’t ever ask a brown girl that in an American airport!’
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I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding.
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One girl used to call me Brownie and tell me to go back to my own country. At lunch, I’d get a bag of chips from the vending machine and eat it in the storage room so I wouldn’t have to see her.
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I adore watching movies; movie marathons are my favorite pastime. I can watch up to five movies back to back. I also love music and like reading whenever I get the time.
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When I was 13, I would come visit my aunt and uncle in New York. I decided I wanted to live with them after seeing my cousin‘s school. Honestly, I just wanted to go to a school where I didn’t have to wear uniforms, and my mom said okay.
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With feature films, it’s a one-time judgment once your film is premiered. Reviews, box office, and then you move on to the next project. With TV, you are being rated and judged weekly for an eight-month stretch.
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My ambition when I was four years old was to be married.
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There are cliques in Bollywood, and people stick together, but I have always tried to stick to my work. As an industry, Bollywood is very competitive, and I’m very competitive as a person, but I’ve never been a part of any clique, and I’ve always worked with all actors and directors, all camps.
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If my film does not do well, it really hurts me. But by God‘s grace, even if some of my films may not have done well, people have still liked my work in it.
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As a musician, I know that it’ll take time for me to get to the ranks of an established artiste. Nevertheless, I’m very happy that people are appreciating my music.
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I’m not even Indian-American: I’m Indian-Indian. Everybody expected me to have henna and a nose pin and talk in an accent like Apu from ‘The Simpsons.’ I was nervous because I wasn’t sure if America was ready for a lead that looked like me.
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I don’t think Bond does too much; he’s just suave and sexy. He rolls out with his martini and fancy cars. Wow, it sounds like my life already.
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Generalizing a type of people is really primitive.
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After I won Miss India, I realised I do not like failing. I just like being the best. I hate being a loser. So I just have to keep winning.
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If two of your films don’t do well, people say you’re out in the cold and your career is over. One film does well, and you’ve had the best year of your life! I don’t believe in all that’s written.
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Beauty and fashion are not really local anymore. You really have to be a global citizen to know what trends are. Now, it’s pretty much the same designers and the same kind of trends, whether I am in New York, Milan, or Mumbai – it’s the same.
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I taught myself confidence. When I’d walk into a room and feel scared to death, I’d tell myself, ‘I’m not afraid of anybody.’ And people believed me. You’ve got to teach yourself to take over the world.
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When there is a ring on my finger, which is actually given to me, then I’ll tell the world. Till then, no one can claim me.
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Education has always been very important to me. It means you don’t have to depend on anyone else.
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Stardom should be a discovery. You don’t hammer it onto people’s heads. You don’t demand it. You command it.
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I’ve been used to being my own boss for a really long time, so I don’t take to authority very well.
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I never had any awkward situations with Shah Rukh.
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When it comes to an everyday situation, I am like an ant. I keep putting money aside because I know that if I want to splurge, there is a big mountain of money that I can use.
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I don’t look at Hollywood as a big break. Indian film stands on its own.
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When I was in high school in America, I didn’t see anyone who looked like me – hardly ever. I just thought that was normal because you don’t know any better. So I used to idolize so many other people, like Sarah Michelle Gellar on ‘Buffy.’
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Art is collaboration: we are artists all over the world. I believe that people are always going to watch Hindi films… that’s never going to die, but I think it’s amazing that collaborations like that are happening.
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I felt so out of place at the Miss India pageant. I had just come back from America, and I was told I needed to lose my American accent and learn the Queen‘s English, so I had to enunciate my vowels and speak well and eloquently. Giving up a New York accent is pretty hard.
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When I was little, my dad used to call me ‘Bandarella,’ because I was a mess – a Bandar is a monkey in Hindi. I was not a girly-girl and would always break something and would be running around and didn’t really fit in.
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It’s almost negligible sleep and insane amounts of plane rides, but I’m doing it. Your body is screaming out to you to not abuse it so much, but I love what I do in my Hindi films as well as with ‘Quantico,’ and I want to be able to balance both.
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In New York, a 13-year-old Indian girl came up to me crying, saying to everyone nearby, ‘This is where I come from.’ It’s easy to forget that actors have the ability to instill a sense of self in viewers. That’s the greatest compliment.
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I’m pretty sure ‘Nutty Professorwill happen to me at some point. And when it does, I will go to the gym.
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My favorite memory about ‘Baywatch’ is the music. That was my favorite part. It was, like, my calling. And to watch everyone run in slow motion.
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America has been so welcoming to me.
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It is in my nature to give the work I have all the discipline and due diligence that I am capable of.
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I have a very eclectic taste when it comes to music.
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To do anything with someone like Bono or someone would be like, you know, a milestone, I think, as a musician.
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I’m really strict with my skincare regimen. No matter what’s happening in my life, I wash my face every single night and I moisturize – even if it’s 4 A.M.
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I had a holding deal with ABC to find me a show, and I was very clear about the kind of show I wanted to do, because Indian people have always been seen as – well, we’ve been put in a box, about who we should be like.
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I sang the ‘Sunday Night Football’ theme song two years in a row – my first part in American culture, although I still don’t know anything about American football.
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Don’t try to squeeze into a glass slipper. Instead, shatter the glass ceiling.
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Whenever I pick a script, I make sure I’m choosing something I would want to watch. And ‘Quantico’ was something I’d definitely want to watch. As soon as I read the pilot – and I read 26 this season – I knew this was it.
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Black, brown, white, yellow – why are we always talking about colors? I’m a girl. I believe in a global community.
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When I was in school, you never saw anyone who looked like us that was on TV. And that was really weird for me because there’s so many people of South Asian descent in America – in the world.
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I can never be incognito… but I love it!
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I’m trying to be global and trying to push us, as a society, to becoming colorblind, and so I’m very grateful to ABC for casting me in ‘Quantico.’ It was based on my merit, not on my ethnicity.
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In India, people love turmeric. They make turmeric milk, and sometimes I mix it with some cream or yogurt and turn it into a scrub. You’d be amazed at what it can take off your skin.
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‘In My City’ was my first single. It has a very special place in my heart, and I am beyond excited to bring the amazing energy of the track to the NFL’s passionate fans.
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You need to feel comfortable. When you’re comfortable, you feel confident. And when you’re confident, the world is your oyster. Most important, you gotta feel what you wear.
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