Top 40 Freida Pinto Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m proud of myself. I like the way I’m made.”

— Freida Pinto

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2. “It always feels great to be at the start of something new. It’s almost like a revolution, in a way.”

— Freida Pinto

3. “I’m a human being before anything else.”

— Freida Pinto

4. “I am very direct, to the point that I think I might make people uncomfortable! I do not know how not to be direct. I don’t think there’s time to waste.”

— Freida Pinto

5. “I’ll never forget where I’m from. It’s essential to remain humble and evolving.”

— Freida Pinto

6. “Here’s another secret – I have really big feet. I’m a size ten, so every opportunity I get I buy myself shoes.”

— Freida Pinto

7. “Young women who want an education will not be stopped.”

— Freida Pinto

8. “I think it’s important to know yourself before you try to deal with a relationship.”

— Freida Pinto

9. “There’s one disturbing notion throughout India that light skin is more attractive than dark.”

— Freida Pinto

10. “I’ve never told anyone this before, but I’m an obsessive-compulsive. I go back to my hotel room every evening and put the coat hangers back in order and open my bag and rearrange it. It takes a lot of my time, but if I don’t do it I can’t sleep.”

— Freida Pinto

11. “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.”

— Freida Pinto

12. “I definitely need to date someone who is calm.”

— Freida Pinto

13. “I absolutely love London; it is one of my favourite cities in the world.”

— Freida Pinto

14. “I think even the most beautiful person looks stupid on Skype.”

— Freida Pinto

15. “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.”

— Freida Pinto

16. “I find it very interesting these days that films are bringing in so many people of different ethnicities, and I’m proud to be a part of that cultural shift.”

— Freida Pinto

17. “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.”

— Freida Pinto

18. “I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin.”

— Freida Pinto

19. “I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don’t really have is also very American in a way.”

— Freida Pinto

20. “I feel being an actress is probably not half as difficult as being a mother, and I do not know when I will be ready for that kind of a decision.”

— Freida Pinto

21. “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.”

— Freida Pinto

22. “I don’t think Bollywood is only mindless cinema, but a lot of films they churn out are not films that I completely enjoy watching.”

— Freida Pinto

23. “I like working on big budget films.”

— Freida Pinto

24. “I wouldn’t want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. For some reason I think Bollywood has become synonymous with commercial cinema, which is song and dance and everything that is larger than life, and I am interested in the reality.”

— Freida Pinto

25. “I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.”

— Freida Pinto

26. “Everything big-budget or stereotypical I was offered after ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ was a huge no-no.”

— Freida Pinto

27. “I’m glad I’m a strong person.”

— Freida Pinto

28. “When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it’s the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.”

— Freida Pinto

29. “One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.”

— Freida Pinto

30. “I’d like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I’d like to face.”

— Freida Pinto

31. “When we know that educating a girl can change the world, why wait?”

— Freida Pinto

32. “I actually didn’t mind school, and I enjoyed university and college.”

— Freida Pinto

33. “I keep saying I’m not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.”

— Freida Pinto

34. “As the worlds getting filled with temptations, were getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.”

— Freida Pinto

35. “I love going into a country and just blending.”

— Freida Pinto

36. “I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I’m always open to learning everybody’s style – the director, the actor I’m working with.”

— Freida Pinto

37. “When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there’s also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.”

— Freida Pinto

38. “Of course I’m going to marry, but I don’t know when.”

— Freida Pinto

39. “I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.”

— Freida Pinto

40. “I think it’s important to be extremely proud of one’s origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.”

— Freida Pinto

41. “Having grown up in Bombay, from the day youre born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.”

— Freida Pinto

42. “I did not particularly enjoy modeling. I felt I was only utilizing 10 or 20 percent of my abilities. In India, it’s just another job.”

— Freida Pinto

43. “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.”

— Freida Pinto

44. “When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else.”

— Freida Pinto

45. “Indian celebrities have the media and fans permanently outside their homes, and that would make me really uncomfortable.”

— Freida Pinto

46. “If a cream can give you confidence then you really have to check your whole confidence department in the first place.”

— Freida Pinto