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

- Freida Pinto

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.

- Freida Pinto

I love going into a country and just blending.

- 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.

- Freida Pinto

I feel being an actress is probably not half as difficult as being a mother, and I do not know when I will be ready for that kind of a decision.

- Freida Pinto

I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin.

- Freida Pinto

Here's another secret - I have really big feet. I'm a size ten, so every opportunity I get I buy myself shoes.

- Freida Pinto

I've never told anyone this before, but I'm an obsessive-compulsive. I go back to my hotel room every evening and put the coat hangers back in order and open my bag and rearrange it. It takes a lot of my time, but if I don't do it I can't sleep.

- Freida Pinto

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

- Freida Pinto

I'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving.

- Freida Pinto

I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way.

- Freida Pinto

I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.

- Freida Pinto

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.

- Freida Pinto

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

- Freida Pinto

Everything big-budget or stereotypical I was offered after 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a huge no-no.

- Freida Pinto

I don't think Bollywood is only mindless cinema, but a lot of films they churn out are not films that I completely enjoy watching.

- Freida Pinto

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

- Freida Pinto

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.

- Freida Pinto

All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'

- Freida Pinto

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

- Freida Pinto