Preity said, But yes, it didn’t work out. "Everything that could possibly go wrong went wrong.  Every mistake I could make, I made."

Accepting her mistake, the dimpled beauty said, "Every actor has a failure. It's okay. There are lots of things that have worked. This didn't. So what? I'm the kind of person who runs even harder after I fall."

 When the going is not so great you know who you are and who your friends are. So bring on the bad and the good. I can take both on my chin.

It’s the people around me who have changed. Equations change, perspective change. That’s life. There is very little to complain about.

If you sit me next to Bill Gates I’ll feel like a non-achiever. But if you place me next to someone who is terminally ill I’d feel blessed for the gift of life.

“I run even harder after I fall,” is her take.

About getting her confidence back she says, “It doesn’t matter how the world looks at you. It’s how you look at yourself that matters. I have great friends, a great life. As for my career, picture abhi baqi hai, mere dost!”

You think I’d remain single all these years? Whatever is happening with me is good. People say I am looking happy. That’s because I am.

"I am not the kind of person who will stand up and complain," she insists. "I have no complaints against anyone. If I’ve been away from the entertainment industry, it’s because I am not into selling myself. You won’t see me buying space to get written about. I want to be appreciated for the work that I do.” 

"The one thing that bothers me about our present day lifestyles is the vulgar stress on wealth. An individual’s success is measured by his or her wealth, not by moral values. Today, you are not judged for how much good you can do but for how much scandal you can create and how much skin you can expose.

"I fear the values I was brought up with are disappearing," she continues. "Of course, we were naughty when we were kids. But we were mercifully spared the consumeristic culture. When you ask today’s kids what they want to do when they grow up, they say they want to be rich and famous.” 

And to make things worse, Preity claims they're growing up without heroes.

“What happened to those dreams of being Jawaharlal Nehru and Lata Mangeshkar?" she asks. "No kid wants to change the world. According to me, a hero is a soldier or a doctor, not a film star. Since we have no role-models in real life, we hardly have roles of substance in films, except for an occasional Milkha Singh.” 

"Out of the 37 films that I’ve done, 36 have been 'PG13' certified (children below 13 years can watch the films when accompanied by parents). Only Salaam Namaste was for adults because a live-in relationship was scandalous back then.

"There is a need for entertainment designed for children. We don’t have too many films kids can watch comfortably with their parents.