Ileana D'Cruz

“I think marriage is beautiful, but I have mixed feelings about it.”

“You can call me a Mumbai girl since I have spent the first ten years of my life here. Then I shifted to Goa, where I got my first modelling break.”

“I've got every possible thing I could want. And I wondered, 'Why am I so depressed?' I still don't know sometimes.”

“I don't want my personal life to become a part of public domain. It is something that is sacred and means a lot to me. I don't want it to become some frivolous gossip column.”

“My mum is a rock star, and I idolise her. She was born in a conservative Muslim family, where the girls were not educated much, and she was required to wear a burkha. She felt repressed but...”

“I was this very self-conscious, shy person once I hit my teens.”

“In my first-ever shot, there was a big shell that was dropped on my belly in slow motion. I even asked the director why we are doing it, and he said it would look beautiful... and I wondered...”

“The reason I did 'PPNH' was because I wanted to do something different, wacky, and mainstream after 'Barfi!'”

“Marriage is great for some; it makes them better people. For me, commitment doesn't have to be marriage. It stems from the fact that I have a Westernised world view.”