1. “Please do not spoil me anymore with personal gifts ... all your love truly overwhelms me, love you too!”
2. “Compete with Amitabh Bachchan on acting! Forget it. And Abhishek is my hubby and I, like any Indian wife, can only be proud of his achievements.”
3. “Whenever such a moment comes, you all will get to know. But please don’t speculate till then.”
4. “Women in the industry have been exploited very often, but there are some actors who believe that the short cut to stardom is through nudity.”
5. “No one wants to believe me, that I fell down the stairs. First they call me a woman of substance ... how can they now make me look like such a doormat?” (On Salman beating her)
6. “Life will take its toll on all of us. We get injured, we get old ... Looks are not everything. I am not going to look beautiful all the time.”
7. “I know for a fact that if there’s a role which I am suited for, I’ll be signed on. I’ll never go begging.”
8. “I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.”
9. “Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today’s crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.”
10. “I was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie.”
11. “My family is my strength and my weakness.”
12. “She (Mother, Brindya Rai) is the nucleus of my existence; who has gently molded me, shaped me, picked me up when I’ve been down, has faith in me and taught me to be the very best version of me that I can be.”
13. “God has given me plenty of reasons to smile and I feel it’s time to spread it around.”
14. “It’s splendid, it’s inescapable...the bliss is just wonderful. A smile from my daughter and thats it” (Ash on her daughter Aaradhya)
15. “I have openly told David Dhawan that his film (Albela) is like a vacation for me, a paid holiday.”
16. “It’s strange that Rakesh Roshan thinks I look older than Hrithik. In fact, he’s approached me for all his home productions.”
17. “I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise.”
18. “Many of us are privileged to have opportunities and the confidence in ourselves that assures our safety, but most women in our country do not have that. A lot is being said but a lot more needs to be done about this issue. The day we have definite laws for the wrong doers and immediate punishment to them, that is when things will change.”
19. “A lot of actors have kissed before that movie, they continue to kiss on screen till this very minute, but public display is not that common in Indian culture. Even our actors, it’s very rare that actors look comfortable in our cinema on screen kissing.” Ash on her Dhoom 2 kiss
20. “Yashji is very special to me because he is one of the reasons that I am in the film industry. He is the one who kept talking to me for two years before I joined the industry, to convince me.”