Mahima Chaudhry Quotes

If you are uncomfortable, you make your family uncomfortable because they don’t know how to treat you when they come.

I very rarely use a Metro system but I’m glad to see the world-class things which are present in Lucknow now. I loved the artworks, especially at the Hazratganj Metro Station where chikankari work has been depicted.

I don’t know how my mom put up with us. We’d walk around school in torn jeans, put on this punk-rock image and sing ballads everywhere we went.

I enjoy the New Year best by performing in front of a huge crowd.

It’s very tough playing a real life character in a controversial story.

The film industry has always been unpredictable! It is like the stock market really.

Ram Gopal Varma had signed me for ‘Satya’ and two days before the shoot, I was dropped out of the film. He didn’t even have the decency to call me or my manager and inform me about the reality. I learnt from the press that he had begun shooting without me.

I work hard on New Year’s eve as I perform at shows. And then round it off by spending a lazy day on January 1st.

It was wonderful working with Kundan Shah. He is a very good director.

My choice for life partner has been pathetic. So, I have told my mother to look into it.

I was here all the time doing good films like ‘Yeh Tera Ghar Yeh Mera Ghar,’ ‘Kurukshetra’ and ‘Khiladi 420’ but since they weren’t solid hits, people didn’t talk about them much.

Every time I wanted to go out and do an event, go out and do a show, I used to come drop my child at my mother’s home and then I stayed back two days and I used to feel, ‘I’m so much more comfortable here.’

I want to smile more. And I want to do more than what I am capable of.

Ariana has completed me. I felt I’d lived all my high points, till the baby came and life’s been on a high ever since. It feels like with her I’m discovering innocence all over again.

I don’t drink.

They put a picture of me on a magazine‘s cover and wrote ‘Mahima had an accident. She’s got scars all over the face. We can actually call her scarface.’ It still hurts me.

We all are brought up on some values, and I believe values define a man‘s character.

And I think that motherhood has made me a better actress as well.

I’ve always worked with new directors. ‘Pyar Koi Khel Nahin’ with Sunny Deol, Anupam Kher’s debut film ‘Om Jai Jagdish,’ and Niraj Vohra’s ‘Khiladi’ were all first-time films.

More than films, endorsements and dance shows and attending functions or appearing in any shows brings more money.

The biggest change is that production has become organized, there is proper funding. It is more secure. Earlier, some people used to put in their money and if the money is not enough, it would go down the drain.

I have not told anyone about deejaying. I developed a liking for it when I saw some girls becoming DJs.

My struggle began after my first film, post a success, post a jubilee of so many weeks.

When I slowly got my confidence back, Akshay Kumar said why don’t you be a part of ‘Dhadkan’ and then slowly I started picking up cameos and guest appearances, and those became hit.

You should have the same rules for boys and girls at homes. You should ask them the same questions because there is a defect in the way we are raising our kids. You have to give them the same liberties, the same treatment, and the same freedom.

I always wanted to sing to huge audiences.

I got up and saw my face in the mirror and saw the horror. When they did the surgery on me, they took out 67 glass pieces. There were a lot of movies that I had lined up for myself during that time, and I had to let it go. I didn’t want people to know because, at that time, people were not that supportive.

Running around trees and across paddy fields can be exhausting after a while.

I know that there is life beyond films. I know the difference between reel and real.

I only worked out towards being fit!

I wish I had taken some dance classes; I would love to be a female Hrithik Roshan.

North Indians tend to talk a little louder than others.

Cancer is something if you spot in the first few stages, it can be cured.

I do not think that my life starts and ends with films. I do not use my profession as my identification.

Like cricket, hockey too needs to be a lucrative career option.

When a director is making a movie after four years, it’s not considered his comeback. It should be same with actors.

It’s been quite some time now since I’ve been deejaying. And, I think I can play music well.

I met a lot of people in Kolkata who said Sanjiv Khanna is a wonderful, well-spoken man.

The government should take a decision on whether to allow Pakistani actors in India or not, but I think directors and producers will themselves not cast Pakistani actors seeing the kind of opposition the country is witnessing against them.

With a child, it was difficult to take up films, as it would have consumed a lot of time.