32 Quotes by Asha Parekh

Not many know but I did maximum films with Sunil Dutt, who was a thorough gentleman and enthusiastic about everything. He loved making tea for everybody on the sets and that is how I formed habit of having four to five cups of tea in a day.

I feel autobiographies should be written when you're retiring and there's so much to talk about as you've been working for so many years then. It becomes more interesting and there's more material to go in the autobiography.

I lost my parents. I was totally alone and I had to manage everything all alone. It did put me in depression.

I know I admitted to being in love with Nasir Hussain in 'The Hit Girl', but as much as I loved him, I could never consider breaking up his family and traumatising his children. It was far simpler and satisfying to be on my own.

Depression can take you into a black hole, so it is terrible.

I met my share of boys but the end result was always the same - they weren't the right kind of men for me.

I could not do Satyajit Ray's 'Kanchenjunga' because I had already committed the daters he wanted to shoot on to other producers.

I realised I was a 'star' when my first film Dil Deke Dekho was released after being rejected before. It was a very big thing for me.

In fact, I never gave up doing dance shows despite films and even started my own dance school.