I taught myself confidence. When I'd walk into a room and feel scared to death, I'd tell myself, 'I'm not afraid of anybody.' And people believed me. You've got to teach yourself to take over the world.
Priyanka ChopraRead
In New York, a 13-year-old Indian girl came up to me crying, saying to everyone nearby, 'This is where I come from.' It's easy to forget that actors have the ability to instill a sense of self in viewers. That's the greatest compliment.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote highlights the impact of actors on their audience's identity and emotions.
Priyanka Chopra reflects on a moment when a young girl expressed pride in her heritage through the lens of an actor's influence. This illustrates the profound connection between performers and viewers, emphasizing the actor's role in shaping viewers' self-perception and cultural identity. The quote underlines how art can resonate deeply, allowing individuals to recognize and embrace their roots.
Themes
IdentityArtInfluenceHeritageSelf-Perception
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about empowerment at a cultural festival, one might use this quote to illustrate the importance of representation in media.
More from Priyanka Chopra
All quotes →If more girls are educated, all of India stands to gain. The Girl Rising campaign aims to address that through various innovative initiatives that will not only help create awareness but also create a tangible platform to effect change.
Priyanka ChopraRead
I was very sure I did not want to be the stereotype of what Indian people are seen as, which is Bollywood and henna. That's all great! It's what we are, and I love it. I love saris; I love music. I love henna; I love dancing, but that's not all we are.
Priyanka ChopraRead
When I was in school, you never saw anyone who looked like us that was on TV. And that was really weird for me because there's so many people of South Asian descent in America - in the world.
Priyanka ChopraRead
Similar quotes
There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.
John LennonRead
I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.
Edward HirschRead
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Oscar WildeRead
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
Neil GaimanRead
Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life, in light and in dark, and reflect what they find in their work. Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.
Tom HiddlestonRead
I find it relatively easy to keep my clothes on because I don't really feel like taking them off. It's not an urge I have. For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is. That's putting myself out there, maybe even more than taking my shirt off.
Taylor SwiftRead