“When roles that mattered to me started drying up, I took to the brush ...” — Deepti Naval Quote

When roles that mattered to me started drying up, I took to the brush and camera to connect with myself and the world.

Everybody is an actor, whether you play the main lead or one of the supporting characters.

There was a time when Prakash, our daughter Disha, Vinod - who I was seeing then - and I went out to dinner. People thought it was very strange. But I have always felt if you can't work out one equation - the man/woman one - you don't have to lose out on the person altogether.

I wanted to belong to the films which were trying to say something.

It's okay to do a small role in mainstream cinema like 'Aurangzeb' or 'Yaariyan.' But it's films like Rituparno Ghosh's 'Memories Of March' and Avinash Kumar Singh's 'Listen Amaya' that sustain me as an actress.

I'm the least vain person I know. I literally get out the shower, throw a brush through my hair, put jeans and a T-shirt on and head to the Tube and go to work most mornings. It takes seconds.

I always often say, when I was a kid, I wasn't just playing with baby dolls. I was standing in the mirror with brush in my hand as a microphone singing songs.

Tired of nagging your kids to hurry up, get dressed, drink their milk and brush their teeth? Here's a radical idea: Don't.

It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.