Twinkle Khanna Quotes

Twinkle Khanna

Profession : Businesswoman

Birth : December 29, 1974

I pretend that I was never in the movies. The only job I had before was selling prawns door to door. That's what I tell myself. My kids have never seen my films. I'm too embarrassed to show them.

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I don't need an alarm clock to wake up in the morning. Akshay snores so loudly that I'm usually awake the entire night!

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Do people think women from Bollywood aren't smart?

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I don't take too many things too seriously.

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No one has ever told me that I act badly. It is just that most of the films I did didn't click.

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'Barsaat' was a wonderful experience, but it took a long time in the making, and that got very tedious.

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I'm a different person who's not my father or my mother. I want to be treated differently from them. I am myself, Twinkle Khanna. I am proud of being the daughter of such illustrious parents, but I would not like to be compared with them time and again.

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I still remember, when I got my fees for 'Barsaat,' I ran into a car showroom and purchased a Maruti Esteem. I treasure that car more than anything else in the world.

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'Mrs Funnybones' is based and structured around my columns, and it's about how a modern woman looks at India and how India looks right back at her. Since I have a weakness for illustrations, there are also a few funny illustrations in there as well.

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The editor of a newspaper, who is an old friend, asked me to write a column. According to her, I cracked lame jokes all the time and read voraciously.

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I just wanted to say that there is so much goodness in the world. We keep looking at the terrible and diabolical things when we open newspapers.

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To me, a life that doesn't change things and touch people's lives is pretty meaningless.

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Standing in front of our hallway mirror, I am practising a few poses - one leg artfully bent, the opposite shoulder up - when the man of the house strides in and decides to share: a) I look like I have dislocated my shoulder and b) Has anyone ever told me I strongly resemble Tom Cruise?

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Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

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I would have liked to be Birbal in Akbar's court, but a court jester also suits me just fine.

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Scripts didn't exist during my time in Bollywood, or, at least, I was never given one. I don't want to act at all and am happy in my cave.

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I just became less rebellious with clothes, and today, I can slip into appropriate attire according to what the occasion requires, but off the red carpet, I am not that particular about what I wear, and comfort is my main priority.

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My father was very fond of reading. It was something we did at our home. I don't think it fits the way people think Bollywood works, but that's who we are.

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By the time I was in my teens, I was reading science fiction. I had this maternal uncle who had cartons of books. It's important to read because you have to fill your head with words.

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People feel feminists are aggressive, men-hating women with a little moustache. I think it's got a bad reputation because when feminism came into being, we were facing so much opposition that we had to be strident and aggressive.

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