“Nelson Mandela, Dada Vaswani, Harsh Mander, Shabana Azmi - I admire th...” — Amala Akkineni Quote

Nelson Mandela, Dada Vaswani, Harsh Mander, Shabana Azmi - I admire their humanitarian work. But sadly even Nelson Mandela could not keep corruption out of his cabinet and within a year, I am told, the victims of apartheid turned into perpetrators of corruption on their own people. Greed has no boundaries of colour or country does it?

I juggle so many hats that it takes something really special to convince me to get back to acting in films or TV serials.

I have grown up in Chennai, so I speak Tamil fluent.

I don't feel the need to act. But if I really like the role and it doesn't demand much of my time, maybe.

People think making jokes about something is just going to cause trouble. But actually, not making jokes about something is a type - and this sounds very pretentious - of apartheid.

Apartheid was baked hard in the mining industry because that's where it originated.

We have got to move away from the concept of race and color because that is what apartheid is. We cannot end apartheid if we retain these concepts.

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.