People talk about physical fitness, but mental health is equally important. I see people suffering, and their families feel a sense of shame about it, which doesn’t help. One needs support and understanding.
Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (2013)
As an actor, I am only excited about doing good work - be it in mainstream Hindi cinema, Hollywood, a French film, or a Marathi movie.
He scarred my face. Not my spirit.
Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don’t. You have to have a good sense of humor to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch.
Deepika Padukone for Elle India
Deepika Padukone for Elle India
It’s very, very easy to get carried away by the fame, the success, the kind of love, appreciation and adulation that we get. Which is why it’s important to be surrounded by — I won’t say real people, but grounded people. Like my friends, my family, my sister, my parents. It’s like I go to work in the morning and I do what I have to do and they go to work and they do what they have to do, but when we come back, we are us and I am me.
She cannot be our Shantipriya. She’s nothing like her.
Deepika Padukone on Koffee With Karan
In that moment, I didn’t think. I just saw Shanti trapped behind a wall of fire. And you know what, Pappu? If needed, not one time, not ten times, not a hundred times, a thousand times... a thousand times, I would jump into that fire for Shanti. My dreams are nothing compared to Shanti’s life.
Meherbaani nahi tumhaara pyaar maanga hai, tumhein manzoor hai tabhee to yaar maanga hai. Gairon ke dar se, tere sheher se, hai kasam rishta todun na. Tera rasta main chhodoon na, tera rasta main chhodoon na.
Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh for JioFiber
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (2013)