As an actress I knew I had to control my weight gain somehow as any director or producer would like to sign in a svelte actress.

Unfortunately, I was branded as a glamour actress and was forced to do only glamour roles.

Films are my passion. I am here to act and entertain masses.

Politics is an unknown territory, which I will never venture.

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.

In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

I do not understand where the backing of Bitcoin is coming from. There is no fundamental issue of capabilities of repaying it in anything which is universally acceptable, which is either intrinsic value of the currency or the credit or trust of the individual who is issuing the money, whether it's a government or an individual.