Ayesha Takia Quotes

I love people who smile… and always try to smile loads.

I don’t regret a single moment of staying away from the camera.

I can’t ever imagine going in for short hair. I’m somehow not comfortable in getting a short haircut done.

Tom Cruise is absolutely fabulous.

I don’t know why people say you can’t have a career and a marriage. Farhan and I loved each other so I didn’t see why it wouldn’t work.

I never planned anything in my life.

A film set is very casual. If there is a senior actor, by the end of it, you end up joking with him.

Everyone should do more than one thing so that life becomes more fulfilling.

The challenge is always in portraying characters who’ve led a very different life from your‘s as you get to work on the character.

My mother makes fantastic vegan cheese.

Being away from my film bubble gave me a chance to see life differently.

When I got married, a lot of people told me I was insane.

I don’t plan my acting. If I had to copy someone, it would be someone like the legendary Sridevi. I am really bad at copying people. I am very spontaneous.

I want to do films that will be remembered, not run-of-the-mill stuff where I stand behind looking pretty as a picture.

I am close to my family but I don’t have too many friends.

I love doing Telugu films.

I am the most chilled out, non-competitive and unambitious girl.

I watch lots of movies, both English and Hindi.

Since I started working at 15 and never went to college, I didn’t know what it was like to be in the real world. I was in my bubble – until I got married, my life was either in a car, on the set, or on location.

I throughly enjoy films like ‘Mod’ and would love to do lots more.

When you are in a family where there are two or three people in the limelight – like politics and acting – two worlds colliding like that, there will be times when obviously in the press or public eye, those opinions can collide and not match.

Wanted’ is a full-on masala entertainer. But it is not a mindless film.

I am bubbly in real life and people also say I talk too much.

Well as an actor I think i try to do my best and play the characters that inspire me and challenge me.

I am such a home body and I like to be home.

I get irritated when people ask me if I have met a certain actor or I have bags worth lakhs in my wardrobe.

My life has been about choosing different things from most people think that I should have chosen. It always has been about my hapiness and peace of mind therfore I have never stratagised or planned my career.

I love to keep my hair long, and I think every lady should have long hair. After all, it looks so feminine and beautiful.

Item numbers are not for me.

I think the major changes in my body, face and skin have happened after I turned vegan, it has changed my entire life.

Research is especially important when we’re deciding on a new menu.

Children should have a childhood and that shouldn’t be taken away.

Taarzan’ is a very clean film which can be seen with your family.

Each actor is different and not everyone is looking for the same thing. For instance, I have never worried that people have to think of me in a certain way or have to accept me when I return to screen after a sabbatical.

I never stopped being a heroine. I began acting when I was four and bagged my first film as a heroine at the age of 15.

Ever since I was five, I had told my relatives I wanted to be an actress.

People who worry about stupid things, just end up looking miserable after a while – it shows.

I don’t want people to just see me as that cute girl in ‘Dil Maange More’ or ‘Wanted.’

When you’ve done good work, you can’t come back with something stupid.

You see so many actors branching out into so many different things than just acting. It’s so fantastic.

I have enjoyed acting, but getting into production is hectic. I am not made for it.

Acting has always been special and will continue to remain so.

I have been doing ads since I was four years old.

Movies take lot of your time from making to promotions.

Once cannot know if the film is going to be a hit or not so as an actor I choose films that excite me.

I have never let my personal life and choices interfere with my professional life.

Ever since school, I got a lot of attention as I was modelling and everyone knew who I was. As a child, you enjoy it. But one has to explore and doing things by oneself to learn that life is very large.

I have been lucky to strike a balance between the off-beat and commercial films.

I enjoy acting.

If a friend like Nagesh wants to make something like ‘Dor,’ I would love to be a part of it.

Being vegan is something that has changed my life tremendously.

I come from a middle-class family and I value money. This is something that attracted me to my boyfriend Farhan Azmi too. He is a self-made man and very level-headed.

I just make chai with cashewnut milk, and it tastes almost as good as masala chai.

If I was written off and was not offered any work, I wouldn’t care because I have lots of other things to do.

When people see me face-to-face they know immediately that I’ve not gone under the knife and they are the ones who matter.