81 Quotes by Freida Pinto

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

I love going into a country and just blending.

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

Indian celebrities have the media and fans permanently outside their homes, and that would make me really uncomfortable.

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

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.

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.

I wouldn't want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. For some reason I think Bollywood has become synonymous with commercial cinema, which is song and dance and everything that is larger than life, and I am interested in the reality.

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.