Freida Pinto
Freida Pinto
Freida Selena Pintois an Indian actress who has appeared mainly in American and British films. She was born and raised in Mumbai, India, and decided when young that she would become an actress. As a student at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, she took part in amateur plays. After graduation, she briefly worked as a model and then as a television presenter...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth18 October 1984
CityMumbai, India
CountryIndia
I'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving.
I didn't really enjoy modeling in Bombay. I floated through it in the hopes that I would get my ticket to the next big thing. There was no real joy that I got out of it, to be really honest.
Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.
Here's another secret - I have really big feet. I'm a size ten, so every opportunity I get I buy myself shoes.
I'm a human being before anything else.
When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else.
In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like 'Gone With the Wind.' And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there's something so absolutely romantic about it.
I've learned to develop a thick skin, but you're bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it's rubbed in your face over and over.
I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way.
I tell you why I like Chanel so much: when I started off, no one wanted to give me clothes to wear. Absolutely no one! All the labels said, 'Who is she?' But Chanel believed in me from the very beginning.
I'm glad I'm a strong person.
If a cream can give you confidence then you really have to check your whole confidence department in the first place.
In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary.
Indian celebrities have the media and fans permanently outside their homes, and that would make me really uncomfortable.