Top 60 Dia Mirza Quotes

I have always believed that an artiste needs to respond to a story first. One has to feel it in order to live it.

It is critical for us to cultivate consciousness and compassion towards our environment, create awareness, galvanize people, and build sustainable innovations for sustainable development.

My personal style is classic. So a classic element will always find its way into everything I wear.

Being pregnant is a wonderful thing. I have never understood why people make such a big deal of it though.

I have always wanted to make a movie, in fact I always wanted to direct someday. But I never thought I would be a producer.

Be it acting, writing, directing or producing, I love cinema. I love the art of telling stories and I’m happy doing one of the above or all of the above.

I’ve been meditating since 14 years and my mornings are spent in the building garden.

Roles for women need to be better written.

I lost my biological father when I was 9, I lost my stepfather at 23. Both men had such a deep impact in my understanding of life.

I chose to be part of ‘Kaafir’ because the story called out to my soul, I need to connect with it.

I can make a mean Kachchi Biryani, and sometimes I bake it, too.

Beauty is not about good skin, features and figure, but about your nature and habits.

I am never going to stop evolving and growing.

Every child must have a childhood they deserve. But unfortunately, millions of children are deprived childhood and their dreams crushed under the burden of poverty.

It is extremely empowering when you are making fundamental and critical decisions on different levels of production, till the final showcase on the screen.

My stepfather was an exemplary human being. It took me a lot of time to accept him as a parent. But what he did intelligently was he befriended me.

It is impossible to teach people to conserve nature if they don’t learn to love nature.

My father was a German architect and graphic designer, who travelled all over the world, teaching teachers on how to teach. On one such visit to the Max Mueller Bhavan in Delhi, he met my mother.

When I started out, at 19, I was told, by the media and the film industry to do a certain kind of films and work with certain kind of stars. Coming from a non-filmi background, I did not know how to go about it, as there were different people trying to push me in various directions.

I am so glad to have found a sister in Sonam Nair. She makes work such a joy.

I always wanted to play a bigger part in the process of cinema, so production felt like a very natural progression and calling.

Children are my favorite people, because they inspire me with their optimism and spirit.

I chase dreams that fulfill me and not a dream that somebody else describes to me.

I look for gravitas and substance that can outlast the theatrical experience.

I understand its fun to watch a web series up close to your chest is something else, but to see it on a bigger screen and to experience the emotions is magical.

I cannot write a novel because I cannot work in continuity. My works are more abstract, may be, I will try short story writing.

I feel that if you are a creative person, you choose various mediums to give vent to your ideas.

My privilege as a celebrity doesn’t disallow me pain.

When I was just four-and-a-half, my parents separated and both my parents remarried.

While growing up, I saw how finances can play havoc in anybody’s life. While we were comfortable, money didn’t come easy.

I lost my biological father at nine, but up until then, we celebrated Christmas and Easter too.

The only challenge I faced in the beginning was that no one believed I could seriously see a film through.

I think good work, sincerity and discipline speak for themselves.

One doesn’t have to be an activist and start a movement.

People worship and revere Ganga as a mother, and then throw away flowers in a plastic bag into the same river.

Every role I have in my kitty is different. None of them resemble the roles I have played in my earlier films.

I want to go back to the ’80s, wish India could go back to ’80s, when life was simple.

I have enough make-up to last me five lifetimes.

I have discovered the virtue of patience and I don’t quite believe that taking a break for good reason can be a risk.

I’m a minimalist: For a day look, I like earth tones,and at night I go with kohl and a smudgy black eye.

Fortunately, I have never been a victim of sexual harassment. But there have been instances where I have lost out on work or people have shown disinterest in working with me because I was unwilling to succumb to this unspoken understanding of patriarchy.

I am in Deepak Ramsay’s ‘Koi Mere Dil Mein Hain,’ where I am a modern girl who wears bold outfits. She makes heads turn wherever she goes. She is not a brat. She nurses this false belief that she can get any man she wants.

As a child, I remember seeing what a struggle it was for both my parents to accommodate and adjust to the idea of not being together. They cared for each other deeply; they loved each other. They just couldn’t stay together because they wanted different things from life and sometimes, it happens.

If you are asking me whether I would want to have kids, I would say obviously I want them. It’s only natural after a certain phase in life.

One should never ignore or be afraid of reporting or calling out a harasser. There is no shame in doing so.

I have always expressed my opinion fearlessly. To not express the truth is far more frightening.

There are many women who are getting the opportunity to play fantastic parts on the web like Huma Qureshi in ‘Leila,’ Shefali Shah in ‘Delhi Crime’ and so many others. It gives opportunity to those who are not getting the work that they desire to do because of their age. So web is doing a social service.

It really doesn’t matter whether it’s an ensemble cast or it’s a lead or what is perceived as a commercial or non-commercial or an offbeat film. None of that would matter, what really matters is the story and who’s telling the story.

Beauty judgements are many and while we think that light skin women have no judgements to deal with. There is this filmmaker I love and respect and I really wanted to work with, once told me ‘You are too fair to be in my movies.’ And then I have also heard ‘You are too pretty to play this part.’

I was born and brought up in Hyderabad.

One thing led to another and I was selected from Hyderabad for the Miss India pageant. I remember my mother being really surprised that I wanted to take part!

I only want to be part of movies that I believe in and I have no regrets.

When you are an actor you are a very small part of a very large scheme of things.

I was told ‘You should just do commercials and Bollywood’ and Bollywood would be said to me like it’s a bad thing.

I have 32 sweet teeth. I love everything from chocolates of all kinds to panna cotta to Khubhani ka Meetha and Double ka Meetha.

Working with a female director has great perks.

Don’t hold back from being an ’empath.’ Don’t be afraid of shedding your tears. Feel it. Feel the full extent of everything. It gives us strength.

Participating in Miss India was a paradigm shift and I had a blast.

I was allowed to take my adoptive father’s surname. My birth certificate has a different name. My passport has both my adoptive and biological father’s surnames.

I have never stored water in plastic bottles, always in glass, steel or copper bottles and containers. I even carry my own water to work, and refill bottles for drinking.