To me, my mother is very beautiful and the epitome of a woman. She knows how to balance a busy professional life with family life.

Three components - education, equality and empowerment - play an important and pivotal role in moving the country forward in every aspect.

I strongly feel about women's rights because I have been working for menstrual hygiene across India.

Women are equal to men.

Just as sport can, art has the capacity to cross so many boundaries like education, race and religion.

Our annual school physics trip was always to Blackpool Pleasure Beach, as it's such a good example of Newtonian physics. You can learn about centrifugal force and Newton's first law from the roller coasters, and the Viking long boat is a giant pendulum. It's good for children to understand that science underpins all these brilliant things.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.