Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

I try not to think about anyone's expectations but rather focus on always doing my personal best. Modeling was never a thought in my mind growing up, but my mom felt it was important for me to be open to business opportunities and expand my horizons. ”

Coming from a conservative family from Mangalore, I had hardly watched any movies or television during my student days. ”

Everything that I am going to do as an actress doesn't matter where it's coming from. It just has to be interesting. ”

Growing up, my parents treated my brother and me with absolute equality. ”

I have nothing to hide. So when I spoke about my lip job, a lot of people called me brave for coming out. ”

Once, I was coming back from school, and there was this guy who was eve-teasing me and my friend. I had a Milton water bottle that I flung it at his face. My dad told me if you are in a crowded place and a guy eve-teases, you should make noise. I did exactly that and got people on the road to beat up the guy. ”

I feel there is a great sense of achievement coming from a non-filmy background. But when you are going through a low phase, you don't have anybody to advice you because your parents possibly can't advice you on that. ”

My parents manage my money, though growing up I was very hands on with investments and made all the decisions, even on behalf of my parents. ”

Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty. ”

I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up. ”