“I've no regrets at all. I'm blessed in this life. Even in my next birt...” — Manorama Quote

“I've no regrets at all. I'm blessed in this life. Even in my next birth, I want to be born as Manorama again. I want this same life, and same people around me. Most of all, I want my mom with me again.”

“I am the first Tamil film artiste to receive the Padmashree.”

“My mom wanted me to study medicine. But it was not easy to become a doctor in those days, and I became an actress. So, if I hadn't taken up acting, I would have tried to become a doctor as my mom wished for it.”

“My mother always tells this story: The day she gave birth to me, she looked down and said, 'Oh, yay. I got a gay one.'”

“During my childhood in Cyprus, the British talked about the Cypriots as if the Cypriots were outsiders in their own country. And even though I was born in Cyprus, my parents were American, and so I was an outsider in the land of my birth.”

“The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.”