Quotes by Freida Pinto

About Freida Pinto:

Freida Selena Pinto is an Indian actress and model. Hailing from a Mangalorean Catholic family, she wanted to become an actress from a young age. Prior to making her cinematic debut, she worked as a model and a television presenter, and acted in plays while attending college. Pinto continued modeling for four years and enrolled herself in an acting course at the "Barry John's Acting Studio" in Mumbai.
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Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

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

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

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

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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 i...

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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.

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I love going into a country and just blending.

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I absolutely love London; it is one of my favourite cities in the world.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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 ev...

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I'm a human being before anything else.

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

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameFreida Pinto
  • DescriptionIndian actor
  • BornOctober 18, 1984
  • CountryIndia
  • ProfessionActor; Model; Television Presenter