Preity Zinta Quotes

Upen Patel (model and actor)

On being invited to the Cannes Film Festival in 2006:

Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets too.

How do I pick a role? Well, primarily I think I would like to be part of a film that's progressive as well as entertaining, you know? Because in India we have a huge amount of audience that is not educated, and they really look up to films... So I think it's important to do a film... that's entertaining but has a message. And after that I'd like to do films that are different for me -- if I'm doing a love story then I want to do a war film, if I'm doing a war film then I want to do a story about an un-wed mother. I think variety is the spice of life.

To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected.

I want to bring a change and do something new and different in my profession, but in the beginning I'll have to toe line, I want to be known as a performer not a star.

I am single and desperately looking for a good man in my life. I did have major crushes when I was younger but no serious relationship.

...my favourite [co-actor] is always the recent one I'm working with. But I think one of my personal favourites is Shah Rukh, he's one of the best actors I've worked with.

Deepa Mehta (Director of Heaven on Earth)

On Shankar Ehsaan Loy, Music directors of Kal Ho Naa Ho

I wear Whatever I feel comfortable in. I like to mix and match. I'll buy something from the street. I'll buy something from a fashion house.