Top 50 Manisha Koirala Quotes

I don’t watch my old films. It’s over and done with. I’m proud of my films, but who watches their movies after 20 years?

When I got to know about my cancer, I was at the rock bottom of my life, and my work suffered for it.

Procrastinating is a habit that I have to overcome.

I come from a family where we were taught to love and respect every community and religion.

The poor lifestyle I had been leading made my body susceptible to diseases. Had it not been cancer, some other malady would have struck me.

Even after spending a substantial time in the entertainment business, before the release of a film, I am nervous.

By and large, I think female directors are far more sensitive.

I think cancer came into my life as a gift. My vision is sharper, my mind clearer, my perspective realigned.

What’s important is to do good work and interesting roles.

I love working with the younger generation.

Cancer makes you realise that you will be dead one day. It’s so common seeing people dying and falling sick, but we aren’t really ever able to comprehend it ourselves. The realisation that I am here for a certain period of time and will be gone after that made me value my time and life.

Looks matter a lot, and it has always mattered. We always judge. I have not only been on the receiving end, but I have also judged others.

If you build your immune system, eat right, God knows how long you are going to live!

Being diagnosed with cancer helped me identify all that was wrong in my life. It also helped me search for the solutions. I discovered self-love; I learned to prioritise myself over others and, most importantly, realised that I had to love myself first before somebody else loves me.

Yes, I tend to be self-critical at times. This is because during my cancer period – while I was going through the whole process of treatment – I had time to reflect.

I have done my share of looking glamorous on-screen in many films.

I knew right from the beginning that if I was going to write a book, I would write my version of the truth and then put it out there for people to decide if they will accept it or hate me.

I have to tell you this – as a teenager, I never used to see any horror films till I started acting in films.

I feel that ‘Saudagar’ was the best debut for me. I wouldn’t want it any other way.

Creative people are more emotionally charged, so I am a super sensitive person.

I am very content being single. I don’t feel the need of someone absolutely having to be with me to make me feel like a woman.

I take care of my health. I nurture it.

I don’t have sugar and try to avoid it as much as possible. At home, I don’t have it at all.

Whether I live long or short is not the question: what quality that I surrounded myself is!

I believe in all the secular values that Indian democracy is famous for.

I wanted to be a complete person and realised that the well-being of mental health is extremely important in achieving that.

I don’t miss what has passed. I am enjoying the present. I am not one of those people who live in the past.

We should value what we have and not take it for granted.

We think till the last minute that nothing can happen to us. But cancer will grab you by surprise, and then it’s too late.

One has to stay dignified about whatever is happening in life.

Every director, when they make a film, their souls speak. The kind of stories they choose to make, it shows their souls.

I think when an actress is good, roles in mid-forties is a great thing.

On the sets, I used to scare people. I team up with my level of people and sometimes do spooky things. I’ve inherited this from my mother, as she used to scare my neighbours by dressing up like a ghost.

I don’t see things from a worm’s perspective but a bird’s perspective. I smile at problems.

For a young, unexposed Nepalese girl, Bollywood was a terrifying experience.

Do your best and leave the rest to God.

I’m a spontaneous actress, not a studied one.

I am looking to play powerful characters and as far as biopics are concerned.

Cancer treatment is very expensive, and the process is painful and long. This is something that we have to collectively think about, on how to make it affordable.

Fame will go away; people will not have interest in your work anymore. That has to happen. To overcome, all you can do is reinvent and work hard.

I had kept notes during my cancer treatment, but I wasn’t sure what my outcome was going to be. A part of me wasn’t sure if I would make it into a book. If it was going to be morbid, I wouldn’t want to tell it.

When I’m in Kathmandu, I go out into the hills and go trekking.

I just don’t want to be known as the face for cancer. It is one part of my life. Yes, it was a major part because it changed me a lot, but that is not all my life.

We tend to not value anything that we get for free.

In the film industry, we work more on the basis of good faith and verbal commitments rather than legalities.

With my mom and dad around, I became a child yet again.

I was ahead of my classmates in some ways. While they were enjoying Mills & Boons, I was reading Ayn Rand.

Truth of life is that in difficult times, my family was my backbone.

There is nothing compared to the feeling of losing life. The moment when you are close to death is nothing but a profound experience.

If I am exhausted, I will pamper myself, take an extra nap, eat well, take a spa treatment.