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Priyanka Chopra Jonas

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first: 2021-03-24
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“I just miss India. I haven't been back since holi last year and India's my home and I just want to come back and visit and smell it and live it and meet my friends and I also want to do a Hindi movie. I haven't done that for a while. So I just miss home a lot. I just want to be able to get on a flight and land in Mumbai.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Just that you're not pursuing perfection and we don't have to all be finished and tied up in a neat little bow and have every button buttoned. You know, life is messy. It's not simple and complete and perfect. And I think the best thing about being unfinished is that you're not striving for perfection because it's just futile. We're never going to get it. We're always going to change. And it's okay to leave things unfinished.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think around the death of my dad, I was very angry with God changed a little bit, but then at the same time, you know, I feel like God helped me find salvation and come out of it too. But at that time, it was tested. Oh man, I went to every temple that was to go to. I did every prayer there was to do. I met every god, man, or woman that I needed to meet, every doctor that I needed to go to, I flew my dad to Singapore, to New York, to Europe, you know, India, everywhere, just to do whatever I could to prolong his life. It's such a helpless feeling.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One of the big ones was feeling like I belonged in a room because I was always thrown into, like from a very young age, I was thrown into different atmospheres, right? Like moving schools and going In the beginning, I used to have to remind myself of why I'm in the room, why am I meeting heads of states and why am I meeting these really important people and to be able to sit across someone who has a long sense list of achievements and still feel like I belong?”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's a hard question. See, I'm a pageant girl. I need to be able to answer this really quickly. I think my theme would just be if I could choose a song, it would be any percussive movement because I walked to the beat of my own drum and I think that I'm someone who's always taken steps in whatever direction I want. So a Congo, the tabla, the drums, like something just going at it would be my theme because I wake up with a spring in my step. I want to embrace life. I am hungry for it. So I think drums will be appropriate for me.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's true. Unfortunately, it's the truth of the world and I would implore actually parents to just give their children, especially when they're young, just cherish them, tell them how important their views are, how important their individuality is, you know, not to burden them with their dreams, but to let your children have your own dreams. I really benefit. That's the greatest gift my parents gave me was a sense of individuality.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Truly, I think just when you feel cherished as a child, when you feel encouraged as a child, you grow up into an adult who has a sense of confidence. When we, you know, you step into a room, you feel like, all right, I have family, I have something to fall back on, I have someone who loves me, who cares about me, that I can walk into any room and hold my own, it really gave me that sense.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We argue, of course, we argue, like everyone. We don't argue in front of our dogs for sure. No, I'm curious. But that's something I hope to take forward in my life for sure, because I know how it benefited me and my brother. We never felt like we were the reason for any sort of discomfort between them. I've never actually seen it twice maybe where I felt that my parents were having a situation, but it would always be behind closed doors, in their bedrooms. Like when there was silence, then I would probably know some things up, but I never saw them yelling at each other, screaming at each other, never. And it gave me such a sense of balance.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Hopefully, I mean, you know, it's like I said, you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans. So I'm not one who makes those plans. But yes, absolutely, whenever it's the right time, it's something that we would definitely want.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh my gosh, I extended my hand. I remember I was walking down the aisle. I extended my hand for my mom to come. And I felt my dad's presence in such a big way in that moment. My mom and I clutched onto each other when we were walking down the aisle like for dear life. And I know silently that's what we were feeling, him.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think my mom walking me down the aisle was a really, really big moment. When I asked her if she would, she was a little hesitant because she was like, that's something your dad would have done and I can't step into his shoes.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So it's really important for extended families to get to know each other. Hence, it's usually two or three days. But here we threw in a Western wedding into the mix as well. So hence it became three, four days. But it was just 110 people, the most important people in both our lives. We really created a very immersive experience for both sides of our cultures. I remember we made like little books during the wedding which said Indian weddings for dummies and Western weddings for dummies because a lot of my family had never been to a Western wedding and a lot of Nick's family had never been to an Indian wedding. So it was really funny to actually watch these two completely different cultures embrace each other and kind of mingle and mix and become one that it was one of the most incredible experiences of my life.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was only an only present because, first of all, we were only 110 people. And a three-day wedding is very normal in Indian family, actually, because we have a lot of pre-rituals. The idea of Indian weddings usually is it's not just about the bride and groom, it's the families that also get married.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He was just so excited about it. And my dad is such a, was such a big cheerleader of mine. And now I feel like I'm married to my cheerleader too.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I had a silly one like that. But really, Nick is all of those things. Another one was confident in himself. I cannot stand insecure men. It is such a pet peeve of mine. It's not a good look on anyone, but specifically not in a relationship on your guy. And Nick was just all of that.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I made the list of five things that, first of all, I wanted, and this was before I met Nick. And I remember writing it down one New Year's Eve or something and putting it in my wallet, you know, as if it was going to happen. And that was Nick. That happened six months later. He comes into my life and he was exactly all of those things, which was, you know, I wanted somebody who was honest and comes from honest place all the time. I didn't want the drama. Someone who knew family, who loved family, because I come from a large family. I want a house full of friends and family. Someone who loved his job because I love mine and I find purpose in my work and I wanted someone who was creative enough to find purpose in their work. The other one I think was that he should Understand business and finances because I don't.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They build home together, they build a life together in equal partnership. And I saw that growing up. And I'm just amazed that I found exactly what I kind of grew up with, with Nick. And I just kind of swept. I'd let it happen.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was really swept to it is absolutely the right adjective because I may have judged the book by the cover. I didn't honestly take it very seriously when Nick was texting me. I was 35. I was like, I want to get married. I want to have kids. He's in his 20s. I don't know if that's something he'd want to do. I did that to myself for a while till I actually went out with him and nothing surprised me more than him. He's such a self-assured man, so sensible, so excited about my achievements, my dreams, you know, such a true partnership that he offers me in everything that we do together, that I truly believe that my mom manifested him because that was her marriage. She had a marriage of partnership. They worked together. They lived together.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Thank you. My husband usually says that to me. He was like, I don't know, he calls it my superpower. He says, whenever the roof is falling and the ceiling is caving, I'm solution oriented. And I'll be like, all right, how do we, what is the next thing? How can we get out of this and thrive?”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That the NFL gave me a second season, and they stood by me, and it gave me a, it fed me actually to normalize people that looked like me in mainstream entertainment. That why was this such a big deal? It shouldn't have been. I'm just a girl singing a song.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That was really shocking to me. I didn't see that coming. I was very blindsided by that. Because I was so excited about this first song. I'm working with Will I Am and I shot the music video and I was so proud because I was stepping into American pop culture and I really wanted to be a part of mainstream American pop culture. This was like what bigger than Thursday night football. And then they hear I actually was quiet for a couple of days because I had a sense of shock that it was so vile, so racist and so public. This was all on social media. It was out there, people discussing it, people commenting, people saying, yay, great, people saying no. It threw me for a spin a little bit, but it also, once I found my feet and the fact”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was new in the entertainment business, and girls are always told that you don't want to get a reputation of being hard to work with or you don't want people to say, oh, she makes a scene. So I worked within the system. And that's my regret is that I never stood up to him and said what you did was wrong because I was scared. But the only way I knew how to deal with it was to just step away from it and have grace under fire. That's what I did.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Always gave me that. My mom told me when I was nine years old, whatever you do in life, you will be financially independent. Who says that to a nine-year-old kid? Like, I didn't even know what financially independent means at that time. But that was what my parents were, you know. I was told to have an opinion in a room that disagreed with me. My dad said, if you don't have an opinion, what's the point of you being here? And I was like, that's right. You know, so I was always encouraged to have a voice. My regret with that incident is that I never said anything to the filmmaker. I was so scared.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and I really am a big believer of the fact that life is really a gift. You know, I mean, it's so amazing to be able to live and meet people and have choices and the things that we do. And so I'm someone who doesn't take it for granted at all.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've always had really big interest in science and technology. So I do think I would have done something in that world. But I also, as my nature is I'm a student of life, like I'm not someone who ever rests on my laurels or I think that I know everything. I don't. I put my head down. I listen. I learn. So I think whatever I may have gone into, I would have come out okay. Because I'm willing to learn.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I really do give him a lot of credit because I don't think I would have had this career or this job if it wasn't for his ingenious idea.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not at that time. But it did after I got used to the crown on my head for a second, and especially after I became this world, I was thrown into the deep end so badly I didn't come from a pageant family. I didn't come from desiring that. You know, I loved watching Miss India. I used to watch Miss World, but I never thought I could be part of it. So at 17, when you're thrown into this crazy world of pageants internationally and then movies, I was just trying to keep my head above water at that point. But a few years later, I had that moment.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's probably also just being mean and trying to hurt someone where you know that they are going to hurt. And in retrospect now, I think that they probably didn't even know what they were really doing. It was just trying to hurt somebody that you wanted to target. But at that time, at 16, I remember I was like, I don't want to live in this country. I want to go back home. I want my mommy. And I called my mom and she was on next flight over. We went back home. But at that time, I remember feeling profoundly affected by it.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think high school is hard anyway, right? And to be coming of age to understand your body as a woman, at the same time to be devalued for something, I can't change or I wasn't even aware of the fact that this was something that I should feel embarrassed about. But I guess when I was made to feel like, did my clothes smell funny when I walked by in the hallway or people smelled curry? Or, you know, little things like that at 16 are so detrimental to Your self worth, your sense of self.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, having a higher power and having a sense of faith. But this is again something my dad used to tell me. He was like basically religion is all a way to get to a supreme power and every religion has a different face to the same direction where we're going. It's all pointing to one direction. It's all pointing. And whatever your face is, whatever your version of that is, is just a means to an end. And so I did grow, I am a Hindu and I pray I have a temple in my home. I do it as often as I can. But at the same time to me, I'm truly more spiritual. I feel I'm a believer of the fact that a higher power does exist and I like to have faith in that.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I did. I think in India it's hard not to, you're right, like, you know, with the swirling number of religions that we have that live within the country as well. And so I grew up in a convent school. Like when I went to school, so I was aware of Christianity. My dad used to sing in a mosque. I was aware of Islam. I grew up in Hindu.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Getting a right to education or knowing their own rights, like children's rights and their worth, some of them don't even know that they can go to school or they can say no to getting married as a 13-year-old. So I think that it really shaped me and my mom never shied away from talking about it. In fact, she used to call it out to me all the time and she used to remind me of the fact that this is an opportunity that I've been given and how lucky I am to have it.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Again, it made me feel such a sense of privilege because I was one of the fortunate few daughters of the same country that was treated with a sense of self. I was given a choice in my life. I was given a choice in having my opinions. And that's what confused me so much is that that's such a complexity to the world where there are so many women. We have the privilege and good fortune of having parents that give us wings, but there are so many women around the world that don't have the ability to make a choice in their own existence. You know, it's decided when they have kids, it's decided who they marry, what jobs they do, if they have jobs, whether you go to school, whether you don't. And it really shaped a really large part of me. And I think that's a big reason I took on advocacy for girls.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I remember he said it to me when I think around 10 maybe, I was studying science. And we had recently in geography learned about the power that water has if it drips on a stone, it can make a hole over time. And waterfalls crash. And we just learnt that. And I think that analogy made so much sense to me at such a young age because I knew that water can be as powerful as a waterfall, you know, slit holes in boulders and rock, but at the same time, it can be as still as a teacup or a snowflake or a teardrop. And when my dad said that, that's how he explained it. He was a very visual man, super creative, and that's how he explained it to me. He's like, if you're like water, you can adapt to anything. But you can still choose to be powerful or pleasant.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Which I never had when he was around. You know, he always saw me as this restless, trying to get to the new place thing and he always wanted me to have a sense of peace. And that's when I feel him around, when I feel peaceful.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I miss most about him just how unabashedly proud of me he would be. In the littlest things, even if I, like, if I'm having dinner and my plate is clean, my dad would be excited. If I wore a dress that I liked, my dad would be excited. If I won an award, the littlest thing, the biggest thing, he'd be the loudest in the room. I miss the noise, the excitement he had, the joy and investment he had into my life, and just how excited he used to be about everything about me. And I just, the silence is what I miss. But I do feel that he's been very instrumental in me being where I am today. I think he's gone up there and has made a few things happen and he's helped me find a sense of peace.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's my dad's handwriting, actually. I got him to died, and this was my first tattoo, and I lied to him about it because he never wanted me to get a tattoo. But he had to forgive me because, you know, it was his handwriting.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I didn't think it would be as much because you're like, okay, well, it's your life. How hard can it be? Right. But if you want to dig deep, which I really wanted to, it can be uncomfortable. You know, it can be there were many times that I wouldn't finish writing about something because I just didn't know how I really felt about it. I had to process my emotions from A bird's eye perspective before actually writing about it.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I have to say a little bit of it had to do with that, but I'd committed to writing the book in 2018, and between all those flights and little time that I would get in all the hotel rooms that I lived, I could just never write. But I had this time because of COVID. In a little bit more of a secure place where I felt like I could leave behind the insecurities of my twenties and not worry about the things that used to scare me before as much, I have a little bit more confidence in myself and what I bring to the table professionally, personally. So I think that really helped me address my life. And I always just wanted to write a book. And I thought the easiest way to do it would be to write about my life. It wasn't.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Able to EP it and get as many eyeballs as I can to the movie because the story is universal. The narrative is about a class divide that exists everywhere in the world right now.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I had read the book in about 2008, and I just, when I actually read that the movie was being adapted for Netflix on Twitter, like on one of the trade magazines, like where we get our news, everybody gets their news. And I read it that the movie was being adapted and I told my agents to call and offer my services as an executive producer. Because when I was seeking work in America, I remember about five or six years ago I just thought that it was not really in the consciousness of the filmmakers that a leading mainstream part can be played by a brown person. And I didn't want the movie to be put into an independent movie or be put into a genre film box, which ends up happening when you see the leading cast is all Indian. And so I really wanted to be.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Taking time, I think, really. I was always, I spent a lot of time in my life rushing for the next thing, you know, trying to find the next thing I want to enjoy dinner on the dining table with my friends at the end of the day. I want to maybe catch that movie that everyone's been talking about that I didn't do because I was chasing the next thing. I think that's... Speaking of movie.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I definitely could not live without my family. I mean, I was so grateful to have the time with my husband, you know, my dogs, my mom was around. How many dogs came in? I have three puppies. One is a four-year-old. She's not a pup, but the other two are a German shepherd and the other is a rescue husky Australian shepherd. And the two of them are a year and a year and a half and they're just amazing. My three dogs, they give me life.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, when the pandemic started in March and we were all told to lock down, I was in LA and that's where I quarantined for about six months at home. But I mean, I have to say I kind of feel very privileged to say that I kind of thrived through the quarantine. I moved into my new home. I had time with my husband, my dogs. I finished writing a book. I have finished two movies. I've released two movies. And I've had the ability to just do a lot more with myself, which I don't think I had when I was on a flight almost every single day. You know, I felt a sense of grounding to think about what I want to do during this quarantine. I've come out of it feeling insanely grateful for having all I have. I think that, so it's been a really... I think a good time for me.”
2021-03-24 · Oprah's Super Soul · PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONAS · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source