10 great quotes from Priyanka Chopra’s interview with Oprah Winfrey

New Delhi:

Priyanka Chopra, a global icon, became the talk of the town after giving an interview to Oprah Winfrey, the iconic talk show host Super soul. It was a virtual interview (but it does not look like that, all thanks to technology). Priyanka is in London and she appears on Oprah Winfrey, who is in Maui, Hawaii, using the latest technology. Here are ten great quotes from her tell-all interview:

1 –Priyanka Chopra About Man Nick Jonas

I really judged the book by its cover. I honestly did not take it very seriously when Nick sent me an SMS. I was 35 and I want to get married and I want kids. He’s in his twenties … I do not know if this is something he wants to do. I did this to myself for a while until I went out with him. Nothing surprised me more than you know him. He’s such a confident man, so smart, so excited about my accomplishments, my dreams … you know. Such a true partnership he offers me everything we do together, that I really believe my mother manifested him.

2 –Priyanka Chopra on her 2000 Miss World Win

I was thrown into the depths, and so bad. I do not come from a competition family. I’m not getting to that. I never thought I could be a part of it. When I was cast at 17, in this crazy world of international and film competitions, I was just trying to keep my head above water at that point.

3 –Priyanka Chopra on how much she misses her father

I miss most of him how shamelessly proud of me he would be in the smallest things. Even if I eat dinner and my plate is clean, my dad will be excited. If I wear a dress I like, my dad will be excited. From the smallest to the largest thing, he would be the loudest in the room. I miss the noise, the excitement he had, the joy and investment he had in my life and how excited he was before about everything about me. I do feel that he contributed to me being where I am today. He helped me find a sense of peace that I never had when he was there. He always saw me as a reckless, trying to get to the new place and he always wanted me to have a sense of peace. This is when I feel him around, when I feel peaceful.

4 –Priyanka Chopra on her faith being tested

I think of the death of my father. At that time, [my faith] was tested … I flew my dad to Singapore, New York, Europe, India, everywhere just to do what I could to prolong his life. It’s such a helpless feeling. I was very angry, my relationship with God changed a little … but at the same time I feel that God helped me to find salvation and get out of it. But at the time, it was tested. Oh man, I went to every temple I had to go to. I did every prayer to do. I met every godman or woman I had to meet, every doctor I had to go to. I flew my dad to Singapore, New York, Europe, India, everywhere to do just what I could to prolong his life. It’s such a helpless feeling.

5 – Priyanka Chopra on her memory Unfinished

I committed to writing the book in 2018 and between all the flights and little time I had in all the hotel rooms I would get, I could never write. But I had this time because of COVID, and it helped me dig deep. Honestly, I also feel like as a woman I’m a little more in a safe place, where I felt I could leave the insecurities of my 20s behind and not want to worry about it, much. I have a little more confidence in myself. Which I personally bring to the table personally … so that it really helped me address my life. And I always wanted to write a book and I think the easiest way is to write about my life. If you want to dig deep, which I really wanted, it can be uncomfortable. There were many times that I would not write about something because I just did not know how I really felt about it.

6 – Priyanka Chopra on her spirituality

In India it is hard not to do it, you are right. With the swirling number of religions living in the country … I grew up in a convent school. So I was aware of Christianity. My father sang in a mosque. I was aware of Islam. I grew up in a Hindu family. I was aware of that. Spirituality is such a big part of India that you cannot ignore it. I am a Hindu. I pray, I have a temple at my house, I do it as often as I can. But truly, I believe that a higher power exists, and I would like to trust in it.

7 – Priyanka Chopra on racial bullying at school

I think high school is hard everywhere, right? And to grow up, to understand your body as a woman and at the same time appreciate something I can not change, or you know I was not even aware of the fact that it is something I should feel ashamed of. But I think that when I felt, my clothes smelled funny when I was walking down a hallway or people smelling curry, or you know that such little things at 16 are so harmful to a sense of self-worth, your sense of self. It’s just about being mean, trying to hurt someone. Looking back, I think they probably did not know what they were really doing, but only to hurt someone. But at the time, at 16, I remember feeling like, ‘I do not want to live in this country.’ I called my mom, she came and we went back home.

8 – Priyanka Chopra about filmmaker who mistreated her

I was so scared. I was new to the entertainment industry and girls are always told that ‘you do not want the reputation of being difficult to work with’. So I worked within the system.

9 – Priyanka Chopra on the most memorable part of her wedding to Nick Jonas

My mom walking me down the aisle was a very big moment. I reach out my hand for my mother to come, and I feel like my father is so big at that moment.

10 – Priyanka Chopra On The white tiger

I read the book in 2008 and actually read that the movie on Twitter was adapted for Netflix, and I told my agents to offer my services as an executive producer because I had been looking for a job in America for about 5-6 years. I just thought it was not really in the filmmakers’ consciousness that a colored person could play a leading lead role. And I did not want the film to be placed in an ‘independent’ film or placed in a genre film box, and in the end, the leading cast would be white. I really wish I could get EP and as many eyeballs as possible after the movie because the story is universal.