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I've embraced life at all stages.
My fingers are always in every single pie.
An actor's resource base must be life itself.
Terrorism should be struck down with an iron hand.
I look back on my career with some sort of satisfaction.
I am quite proud of being in Parliament, I actually love it.
One of the best things that we have in India is a free press.
I am extremely proud of the fact that I have acted in art films.
Fear is a phenomena that each one of us faces, in different ways.
Art cinema is easier to do as situations in it are closer to real life.
I was very nervous about speaking in Punjabi. I have learnt it by heart.
I've no problem with dying my hair for a role. But in real life, forget it!
Hindi cinema needs to make working women and women of substance more visible.
I think men and women are different - I am not saying better or worse, just different.
I like having family and friends around me. Our house is always overflowing with guests.
I can't describe fear as well as I can describe courage. Courage is when you overcome fear.
India is a beautiful country. Any attempt to divide people cannot be good for this country.
In times of crisis the artist must rise to the challenge and try to make sense from the chaos.
I grew up in a family that believed that art should be used as an instrument for social change.
We need role models in our society that the youth can look up to because that space is shrinking.
We never had any money. All the money we used to get, my father would give to the Communist Party.
My father used to celebrate all festivals like Eid, Diwali, Holi, Christmas, etc. with great gusto.
Earlier at 30, a girl's career was over. Now, all of our top actresses are above 30 and doing well.
We live in interesting times. Information overload can make it difficult to sift fact from fiction.
'Aurat' is an iconic poem which is relevant 70 years later and informs me in the work I do with women.
Over the years, I've consciously not done films that in any way suggest that women are subservient to men.
Whenever I was troubled and confused, I always depended upon my father to give me an objective perspective.
Valentine's day has been reduced to a marketing gimmick. Buying diamonds for your beloved has no appeal for me.
What I value is that I have been able to do some modest work to help women rise to the level of their potential.
Growing up, I was so sick of politics - it was in the house all the time - I was proud of not reading the newspaper.
Unless you have strong roots in films, music, art, painting, or theatre, you can't talk high and think internationally.
I remember people were horrified when I celebrated my 50th! 'Don't announce your age,' I was advised! How stupid is that.
Vulgar lyrics and suggestive, voyeuristic camera angles do not celebrate a woman's sexuality, they actually objectify her.
I absolutely loved working with Mahesh Bhatt. He and I were so much in tune that he would just press a button and I would start.
Not belonging to any political party actually helps me because I value my independent voice above everything else, I treasure it.
If the audience shows that it is interested in films portraying strong women, then the producers will be tempted to make such films.
It's only in India that you can have six couples going together on a honeymoon. I don't think it happens anywhere else in the world.
I have been called a terrorist, among other things. In fact, I am seen in India as being anti-Islamic by the Islamic fundamentalists.
If you stay cocooned in your own safety net, you cannot grow as an actor. You need to be socially engaged and invested to hone your skills.
I must confess that flowers are my weakness and I love receiving them, especially Indian fragrant flowers - Mogra, Rajnigandha, Sontakka, etc.
In Kaifi's poetry and in his work as a social activist, every setback only strengthened his resolve to fight back with renewed vigor and strength.
Acting is all about reacting. When you look into the eyes of your co-star and there is truth in his eyes, giving a reaction becomes so much easier.
If you only play the glamour doll and you want to cling on to the image, then it will be difficult. But if you don't, you will prolong your career.
Earlier, there were only two hairstyles. If the hero had a fringe, he was village bumpkin. If he slicked his hair back, he was an urban sophisticate.
A tender touch, a shared experience, listening to music that both enjoy, with the scent of fresh mogras, is my idea of a beautiful celebration of love.
A fatwa is not a diktat, it's not binding. To turn the utterance of a non-entity into a fatwa and then talk about it endlessly really gets on my nerves.
Immunization protects India's children and, I stress, saves them from vaccine-preventable illnesses and deaths. Vaccines are not meant to harm our children.
My parents always encouraged us to speak our minds and to be respectful while doing so about issues that we thought strongly about and that was unconditional.
The position that Indian Muslims have is unique because we exist in a democracy, which is something that cannot be said about many Muslims living in the world.
As children, my brother Baba and I would be taken to mushairas when my mother Shaukat Kaifi was touring with Prithvi Theatres, because we couldn't afford a maid.