Freida Pinto Quotes

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Freida Pinto

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 18, 1984

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.

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

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I'm a human being before anything else.

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

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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.'

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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I'm glad I'm a strong person.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin.

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