You typically find stereotypical female characters that are people pleasers, where they are wives and girlfriends, typically, who are in the background.

I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.

I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.

I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.

The injury that ended my time in football turned out to be serendipitous. I tore my Achilles while training for a pending tryout with the New York Giants, and when it snapped, so did my career, basically. That's what led me to gain the confidence to get into the acting world on my own terms.

Maybe it's oldest-child syndrome, but I have always been competitive, even as a kid with sports. It spills into my career.

I will give full credit to the 'Indian Idol' platform for grooming me as a singer and shaping my career.

What I do now, when I'm taking on a film, I always ask about the fairness of the pay. I ask what they're offering me in comparison to the guy. I don't care about how much I get paid; I'm in an industry where we're overcompensated for the work we do.