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 iconic talk show host Oprah Winfrey on Super Soul. It was a virtual interview (but it didn’t seem, all thanks to technology). Priyanka is in London and appeared at Oprah Winfrey, which is in Maui, Hawaii, with the help of cutting-edge technology. Here are 10 great quotes from your revealing interview:

1 –Priyanka Chopra at husband Nick Jonas

I really judged the book by its cover. Honestly, I didn’t take it too seriously when Nick was texting me. I was 35 years old and wanted to get married and have children. He’s in his 20s … I don’t know if that’s something he would like to do. I did this to myself for a while until I actually went out with him. Nothing surprised me more than you know him. He’s such a self-assured man, so sensitive, so excited about my achievements, my dreams … you know. A partnership so true that it offers me everything we do together, that I really believe that my mother manifested it.

two –Priyanka Chopra in her 2000 victory at Miss World

I was thrown into the depths, and very badly. I did not come from a tender family. I didn’t come wishing for that. I never thought I could be a part of this. At 17, when you are launched into this crazy world of international contests and films, I was just trying to keep my head above water at the time.

3 –Priyanka Chopra about how much she misses her late father

I miss him more just as blatantly proud of me he would be in the smallest things. Even if I’m having dinner and my plate is clean, my dad would be excited. If I wore a dress that I liked, my father would be excited. From the smallest to the largest, it would be the loudest in the room. I miss the noise, the excitement he felt, the joy and investment he had in my life and how he used to get excited about everything about me. I feel that he was instrumental in me being where I am today. He helped me find a sense of peace, which I never had when he was around. He always saw me as reckless, trying to get to a new place and he always wanted me to have a sense of peace. That’s when I feel him around, when I feel at peace.

4 –Priyanka Chopra about her faith being tested

I think about my father’s death. In that time, [my faith] has been tested … I flew with my father to Singapore, New York, Europe, India, everywhere just to do what I could to prolong his life. It is a feeling of helplessness. 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 to get out of it too. But, at that time, it was tested. Oh man, I went to all the temples I had to go to. I said all the prayers I had to say. I met every god-man or woman I needed to meet, every doctor I needed to go to. I flew with my father to Singapore, New York, Europe, India and everywhere just to do what I could to prolong his life. It is a feeling of helplessness.

5 – Priyanka Chopra in her memories Unfinished

I had committed to writing the book in 2018 and, among all those flights and the short time that I would stay in all those hotel rooms I lived in, I could never write. But I had this time because of COVID and it helped me to go deeper. Honestly, I also feel that, as a woman, I am in a slightly safer place, where I felt that I could leave the insecurities of my 20s behind and not worry about it before, it scared me like a lot of. I have a little more confidence in myself. What I bring to the table professionally, personally … so it really helped me deal with my life. And I always wanted to write a book and I thought that the easiest way to do that is to write about my life. If you want to dig deep, which I really wanted, it can be uncomfortable. I often didn’t finish writing about something because I just didn’t know how I really felt about it.

6 – Priyanka Chopra on her spirituality

In India it is difficult not to do this, you are right. With the growing number of religions living in the country … I grew up in a convent school. So, I was aware of Christianity. My father used to sing 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 can’t ignore it. I am Hindu I pray, I have a temple in my house, I do it whenever I can. But honestly, for me, I believe that there is a higher power and I like to have faith in it.

7 – Priyanka Chopra on how to tackle racial bullying at school

I think high school is difficult anywhere, right? And to come of age, to understand her body as a woman and at the same time to be devalued by something that I cannot change or know that I didn’t even know it was something that embarrassed me. But I think when they made me feel like my clothes smelled strange when I walked down a hall or people smelled curry or you know little things like that at 16 are so detrimental to the sense of self-esteem. It’s just about being mean, trying to hurt someone. Now, in retrospect, I think they probably didn’t know what they were really doing, just trying to hurt someone. But at that time, at 16, I remember I was like, ‘I don’t want to live in this country.’ I called my mom, she came and we went home.

8 – Priyanka Chopra on the filmmaker who mistreated her

I was so scared. I was new to the entertainment business and the girls always hear that ‘you don’t want to have a reputation for being hard to work with’. So, I worked within the system.

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

My mother accompanying me to the altar was a great moment. I held out my hand for my mother to come, and I felt my father’s presence in such a big way at that moment.

10 – Priyanka Chopra On The white tiger

I had read the book in about 2008 and actually read that the film was being adapted for Netflix on Twitter and told my agents to call and offer my services as an executive producer because I was looking for work in America for about 5 to 6 years ago, I just thought it wasn’t really in the filmmakers’ awareness that a mainstream mainstream role can be played by a brunette person. And I didn’t want the film to be placed in an “independent” film or in a genre film box that ends up happening when you see that the main cast is all white. I really wanted to be able to make an EP and get as many eyes as I could for the film, because the story is universal.