Priyanka Chopra has opened up about how she wants to "change the world". The actress – who stars on the cover of InStyle – admitted that her aim is to make a shift in the world through her work.
"I want to change the world a little bit," she said. "My big endgame is creating a formidable career and legacy for myself, but at the same time I want to have moved something."
Chopra won the Miss World pageant in 2000 and went on to have a successful Bollywood career, before breaking into Hollywood, something which she said she wanted to do in order to break down stereotypes about Indian culture.
"I knew that American pop culture was not used to seeing Indians outside the box," she said. "I was definitely not signing up for something like My Big Fat Punjabi Wedding. Or something where people would see me as a Bollywood actor with, like, 15 people coming out of a car and all of those stereotypes. I wanted to be able to shift that narrative, because that’s the India I know."
The actress – who admitted last week that she would not rule out running for Prime Minister of India one day – says that she is always willing to push herself and try something new, and that this is the secret to her success.
"I like learning, and I’m not so afraid of failure that I won’t attempt something. If you fail, which I have many times, and make risky choices, you just dust yourself off, get up, and try something else. It’s not the beginning of the end of everything."
Chopra added that one of the reasons she wants to leave a legacy is for her future children.
"I want my existence to have meant something. I want my kids to turn around and be like, 'Yeah, that was my mom.'"
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