National Award-winning actor and producer, Priyanka Chopra who spoke during the Penguin Annual Lecture on 'Breaking the glass ceiling: Chasing a dream', counselled her young audience to love themselves. The 'Baywatch' babe said her secret mantra throughout her long career has been three Fs: Fierce, Fearless, and Flawed.
She said, “I want to tell you a little secret. I am not very fond of this phrase 'breaking the glass ceiling'. Why does it annoy me? Because it takes the context of everything that I have done, all my achievements, all my hard work, and puts it into a box. As if my ambition was that I want to find a glass ceiling and break it... All I wanted was to chase my dreams... I wanted to become the best version of me that I could be.”
'PC's 12 rules of becoming the best version of yourself' included, love yourself, be ambitious, learn from one's failures, and always remember where you came from. She also spoke in the context of Hollywood actresses speaking out against Harvey Weinstein. “I am very fierce. People are a little bit scared of me... But yes, I have had situations when I have been thrown out of films because someone else was recommended; a girlfriend was recommended after I was signed for a movie... I couldn't do anything about it. I was removed last minute from many such situations because I never catered to the whims and fancies of powerful men.”
