Top 15 Madhuri Dixit Quotes

My family gives me enough security and warmth. I don’t have to look for it outside! After achieving so much success and fame I’m apprehensive about people’s motives. I want to be sure that people want to be friends with me and not my fame!

I adore the concept of being in love with one guy and spending the rest of my life with him.

When Hussainji narrated the script [on Gaja Gamini] to me, I couldn´t understand it. And I told him so. So, he worked out a storyboard and then I could visualize the whole film. You know the film is like a painting on celluloid.

I have never been a part of the numbers game. We are not racing horses, who should be numbered. Either the work you do is good or bad.

I find it funny to praise myself, but I think I am beautiful, just like Chandramukhi.

Acting is a bit like cycling. Once you’ve got the hang of it, you just peddle on.

Depend on yourself and you will never be let down.

The tendency in the media is to portray everyone in the film industry as sex-starved creatures. Please spare us.

Good films flop, atrocious films do well. Uncertainty is the only certainty in this business.

It's so ironical. When you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses.

I hope I am not sounding presumptuous or vain. but I think like Sridevi, I was another heroine who could break the barriers between the classes and the masses.

I don't understand the difference between being a star and being an actress. If you are a good actress, you can also be a star but it does not work the other way round. You must be able to deliver the goods.

For me dancing is not just moving your arms and legs but basically it's a very spiritual experience. It's part of me and a second nature to me. You can say it is in my blood.

Quoted in Verve: The Spirit of Today's Woman (page 74)

I was quite the media darling.