Quotes by Vidya Balan

Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.

— Vidya Balan

Love

To each his own, but I just think that we women have a certain body type. As Indian women, we have a beautiful body type. And I believe in the celebration of curves. Whether it's Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Zeenat Aman or Shilpa Shetty, they are very curvaceous and beautiful. I don't know why anyone would want to fight that.

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Wisdom

I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.

— Vidya Balan

Love

I could live in a sari; I was born to wear a sari.

— Vidya Balan

Wisdom

I don't bother about how people feel about me. What matters to me is how I feel about them.

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Wisdom

I eat every two hours. I sleep for eight hours. I have lots of water. I pray to keep calm. Most importantly, I have a smile on my face.

— Vidya Balan

Happiness

I take one day at a time. I am not someone to define my goals.

— Vidya Balan

Success

I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!

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Wisdom

I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.

— Vidya Balan

Love

Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!

— Vidya Balan

Wisdom

Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.

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Truth

I've wanted recognition; I wanted success; I wanted appreciation; I love the perks of being in the movies. I love the fame that comes with it - but that's why I became an actor.

— Vidya Balan

Love

My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me, I look for interesting characters because I intend to completely transport myself into it. This happens only because I am a very greedy actor. I am not part of the rat race because I am living a dream.

— Vidya Balan

Hope

The portrayal of women in Indian cinema, in Hindi cinema is definitely changing, and I have been fortunate to have been part of a lot of films that have contributed to that change. So people see me as a face of that change, and yes, that is because of the choices I've made, but there are lots of people who are working towards effecting this change.

— Vidya Balan

Success

The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.

— Vidya Balan

Wisdom

Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.

— Vidya Balan

Education

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

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Wisdom

All over the world, people are looking at India and saying 'wow', and that's because we have begun to say 'wow' ourselves.

— Vidya Balan

Life

Fortunately, I've never been very conscious and inhibited of what I have to do. The camera's my soul mate.

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Wisdom

I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.

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Wisdom

I'm not fashionable, and I know nothing about fashion, but I have my individual style, and style is eternal.

— Vidya Balan

Wisdom

I'm someone who believes in 'live and let live,' and that applies to everything.

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Wisdom

Only conviction sells. Well, when we are insecure, we really don't have that 100 percent conviction. Once we have it, we can tide over everything.

— Vidya Balan

Wisdom

Women need to learn to value themselves. But that has to be inculcated in men as much as women.

— Vidya Balan

Education