Acting is a career where you keep learning with every film you do.

I am very critical about the way I look.

It might sound cowardly, but I do agree that if you speak out about the casting couch, it will end your career.

When I first started out in Telugu cinema, I signed anything and everything that came my way. I was 18, was immature, and it felt like a good idea that 'Oh, they are paying me a good amount of money.' I was young, naive; I had zero ambition, and honestly, it wasn't my calling.

I think that they way my parents raised me, they taught me to always follow my dreams and never give up, no matter what the obstacle.

I took inspiration from 'Fountainhead,' the way in which Ayn Rand conveyed her political philosophy through an immensely popular novel.

We will persevere, come life or death.

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.