Top 45 Mahima Chaudhry Quotes

I have been keeping myself busy with events, live events, promotions, and of course, you have a child to raise and it takes an entire village to raise one, and I am a single parent.

When a director is making a movie after four years, it’s not considered his comeback. It should be same with actors.

I came back and started living with my parents, and you depend a lot on your parents. That was the time when my mother was diagnosed with an illness; she needed help and she could not be of that great help for raising my child.

It might be the most inspiring film in the world, but if I do not like it I will not do it. I have to believe in the film to take it up.

North Indians tend to talk a little louder than others.

There is no particular dream role in my mind but I would love to play a ‘surprised character’ which makes people say, ‘Omigosh, that was Mahima.’

Every time I go on stage, it’s like living my childhood dream, so it’s really great.

You should have the same rules for boys and girls at homes. You should ask them the same questions because there is a defect in the way we are raising our kids. You have to give them the same liberties, the same treatment, and the same freedom.

When I go to speak at schools, I speak to mothers and fathers, because the way we are raising kids in our country is wrong.

I was here all the time doing good films like ‘Yeh Tera Ghar Yeh Mera Ghar,’ ‘Kurukshetra’ and ‘Khiladi 420’ but since they weren’t solid hits, people didn’t talk about them much.

I don’t drink.

I know that there is life beyond films. I know the difference between reel and real.

I got up and saw my face in the mirror and saw the horror. When they did the surgery on me, they took out 67 glass pieces. There were a lot of movies that I had lined up for myself during that time, and I had to let it go. I didn’t want people to know because, at that time, people were not that supportive.

They put a picture of me on a magazine’s cover and wrote ‘Mahima had an accident. She’s got scars all over the face. We can actually call her scarface.’ It still hurts me.

When I slowly got my confidence back, Akshay Kumar said why don’t you be a part of ‘Dhadkan’ and then slowly I started picking up cameos and guest appearances, and those became hit.

My struggle began after my first film, post a success, post a jubilee of so many weeks.

With a child, it was difficult to take up films, as it would have consumed a lot of time.

Cancer is something if you spot in the first few stages, it can be cured.

I plan to cut an album as well.

I very rarely use a Metro system but I’m glad to see the world-class things which are present in Lucknow now. I loved the artworks, especially at the Hazratganj Metro Station where chikankari work has been depicted.

It’s been quite some time now since I’ve been deejaying. And, I think I can play music well.

The film industry has always been unpredictable! It is like the stock market really.

Like every actor I too have some ‘classics’ in the closet, but I am not keen on adding to that collection.

If dinner needs to be served to the father, if clothes need to be ironed, parents ask the girl to do it, not the boy. Why? Equality needs to begin at home.

You do a lot of movies, then you let others do it when you go and perform another role in life. When you again return to acting it shouldn’t be taken as their comeback.

Yes, it did look like ‘where did she go?’ I was hiding.

I believe God is a big leveler in life.

The biggest change is that production has become organized, there is proper funding. It is more secure. Earlier, some people used to put in their money and if the money is not enough, it would go down the drain.

I don’t know how my mom put up with us. We’d walk around school in torn jeans, put on this punk-rock image and sing ballads everywhere we went.

I enjoy the New Year best by performing in front of a huge crowd.

It was wonderful working with Kundan Shah. He is a very good director.

Running around trees and across paddy fields can be exhausting after a while.

When a boy comes home late from college, nobody questions him. But if a girl is late by even half an hour, the mother asks, ‘Kahan thi?’ Why are you not asking the boy where he was?

I do not think that my life starts and ends with films. I do not use my profession as my identification.

Ariana has completed me. I felt I’d lived all my high points, till the baby came and life’s been on a high ever since. It feels like with her I’m discovering innocence all over again.

I will go in for a divorce if I plan to get married again.

I started judging a few television shows, making appearances at functions or cutting ribbons because it was convenient for me. It also gave me quick and good money. Now, when I look back, I feel those assignments ruined me as an actress.

I remember wrapping up the shoot for ‘Hope And A Little Sugar’ and going straight to a salon to cut my hair very short.

There is a general impression that if a man has a sexy wife or girlfriend, he won’t stray. Men don’t need a reason to stray – they do it anyway.

Like cricket, hockey too needs to be a lucrative career option.

I wish I had taken some dance classes; I would love to be a female Hrithik Roshan.

Every time I wanted to go out and do an event, go out and do a show, I used to come drop my child at my mother’s home and then I stayed back two days and I used to feel, ‘I’m so much more comfortable here.’

I was bullied by Subhash Ghai. He even took me to the court and wanted me to cancel my first show. It was quite stressful. He sent a message to all the producers that nobody should work with me.

When I was doing ‘Pardes,’ I was offered ‘Satya.’

I was a single mother and had to earn money.