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

New Delhi:

A global icon, Priyanka Chopra has become the talk of the town after she interviewed iconic talk show host Oprah Winfrey on Super soul. It was a virtual interview (but it didn’t seem like it, all thanks to technology). Priyanka is in London and she has appeared on Oprah Winfrey, which is in Maui, Hawaii, using the very latest technology. Here are 10 great quotes from her all-telling interview:

1 –Priyanka Chopra about husband Nick Jonas

I really judged the book by its cover. I honestly didn’t take it very seriously when Nick texted me. I was 35 and I want to get married and have children. He’s in his twenties … I don’t know if he’d want to do that. I did that to myself for a while, until I actually started dating him. Nothing surprised me more than you know him. He’s such a confident man, so sensible, so excited about my accomplishments, my dreams … you know. Such a real partnership he offers me everything we do together that I truly believe my mother manifested him.

2 –Priyanka Chopra on her Miss World 2000 win

I was thrown into the deep, and so much. I was not from a pageant family. I didn’t want that. I never thought I could be a part of it. At the age of 17, when you were thrown into this crazy world of international pageants and movies, I was just trying to keep my head above water at the time.

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

What I miss most about him is how unabashedly proud he would be in the smallest things. Even when I’m eating and my plate is clean, my dad would be thrilled. If I wore a dress that I liked, my dad would be thrilled. From the smallest to the largest, it 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 always about everything about me. I feel like he helped me get to where I am today. He helped me find a sense of peace that I never had when he was around. He always saw me as reckless, trying to get to the 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 put to the test

I think about my father’s death. In that time, [my faith] was tested … I flew my dad to Singapore, New York, Europe, India, everywhere 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 like God was helping me find salvation and get out of it. But at that point it was tested. Oh man I went to every temple there was to go to. I did every prayer there was to be done. I met every god man 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 what I could to prolong his life. It’s such a helpless feeling.

5 – Priyanka Chopra on her memoirs Unfinished

I had planned to write the book in 2018, and between all those flights and little time I would get in all those hotel rooms where I lived, I just could never write. But I had this time because of COVID and that really helped me dig deep. Honestly, I also feel like, as a woman, I find myself in a slightly more safe place, where I felt like I could leave the insecurities of my twenties behind and not worry about it. a lot of. I have a little more confidence in myself. Which I bring to the table professionally, personally … so that really helped me handle my life. And I’ve always wanted to write a book and I thought the easiest way to do it is to write about my life. If you want to dig deep, which I really wanted, it can be awkward. There were often times when I wouldn’t write about something because I just didn’t know what I really thought about it.

6 – Priyanka Chopra on her spirituality

In India it is hard not to, you are right. With the swirling number of religions that live in the country … I grew up in a monastery 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 can’t ignore it. I am a Hindu. I pray, I have a temple at my house, I do it as often as I can. But really for me I am a believer that there is a higher power and I like to have faith in that.

7 – Priyanka Chopra on confronting racist bullying in school

I think high school is tough everywhere, right? And growing up, understanding your body as a woman and at the same time being devalued for something that I can’t change or you know I wasn’t even aware that this was something I should be ashamed of. But I think if I got the feeling that my clothes smelled funny walking down a hallway or people smelled curry or you know that when I was 16, that sort of thing is so damaging to self-esteem, your sense of self. It’s about being mean, trying to hurt someone. Now in retrospect I think they probably didn’t know what they were really doing, it was just trying to hurt someone. But in that moment, when I was 16, I remember thinking, “I don’t want to live in this country.” I called my mom, she came over and we went back home.

8 – Priyanka Chopra about a filmmaker who assaulted her

I was so scared. I was new to the entertainment business and girls are always told that ‘you don’t want to get a reputation for being difficult to work with’. So I was working within the system.

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

My mom taking me down the aisle was a really big moment. I reached out for my mom to come, and I felt my dad’s presence at that moment in such a big way.

10 – Priyanka Chopra On The white tiger

I had read the book in about 2008 and I actually read that the movie was being adapted for Netflix on Twitter and I told my agents to call and offer my services as an executive producer as I was looking for about 5-6 years to work in America. ago I just thought it was not really in the consciousness of the filmmakers that a protagonist can be played by a brown person. And I didn’t want the movie to be put in an “independent” movie or put in a genre movie box, which eventually happens when you see the protagonist is all white. I really wanted to be able to EPing it and get as many eyeballs to the movies as possible because the story is universal.