'Top actors like Ben Kingsley, who played Gandhiji, had already raised the bar.' 'I hoped that Rajkumar Santoshi would be satisfied with my acting.'

'When you walk out of the theatre, you will probably be talking about my performance, nothing else.'

'The challenge for me was to make it believable that I was a girl from that era.'

'And it always should be.' 'I believe nothing should come easily to anyone because then there is no thrill in it.'

'Acting is probably the most wonderful profession anyone can have because you make every film set with 200 people, so you make 200 new friends every four months, and you learn so many things from these new lives.'

'Options are just not working; people are not coming out.' 'So what happens is, when you are not really sure, two things happen.' 'If you release it (in theatres) and if the film doesn't work, your OTT price also goes down.'

'I did not have the privilege of someone holding my hand and guiding me. I had to chart my own journey.'

'One thing I did take back from the film was that I will not let my fears rule my children's lives.' 'Restricting my children because of my fears will not happen in my life.'

'From the moment we get up, we fear something or the other. But the whole point of our lives and growing up and maturity is that you have to work despite the fear.'

'Actors like me heave a sigh of relief if we get work.'

'Be it Nimrit or Tina or Shaleen or Sajid Khan, they are all faking it.'

'Priyanka will win the show.'

'I feel I should do a lot of things.' 'When you have got that chance to do that, it's wonderful.'

'If Badhaai Ho had not happened, nobody would have talked about me being a good actress.' 'They have never said it before.' 'I would have been nothing.'

'Comedy and humour are important tools and open the hearts of people.' 'Anything that brings a smile on somebody's face has merit.'

'To begin a film, to complete a film, to feel that you give everything you had, and to feel satisfied is a priceless feeling.' 'That's the feeling I am searching for now.'

'Calmness and stability has come into my life after being married to Vicky Kaushal.'

'Shah Rukh Khan often tells me that people are not old, their thinking turns old.' 'You can stay relevant as a person if you keep your thoughts new and updated.'

'It's so easy to get a little typecast and also the kinds of emotions you are dealing with become a little similar.'

'Whenever Mani sir says Ash, I am like, 'Do I die in the end? Do I get her?'