Having a birthday around the holidays was never easy and, with every successive year, it felt more and more as if celebrating my birthday got thrown into the December holiday mix as an afterthought.
Being a young actor, I remember missing out on summers, birthday parties, and school trips through high school because I was filming. There are so many things that you have to sacrifice and give up for it.
Since the day I got married, I never got to plan my birthday.
Til the day I didn’t play under-19 World Cup, nobody ever celebrated my birthday. And the moment I played for Indian team, my family got excited and ordered and cut a cake for me in front of 40-50 family members.
My parents split before my fifth birthday, and I moved with Mom and my three siblings to her native Oahu.
I’ve always loved watches. It’s been the one thing that I’ve asked for, whether it was every Christmas or a birthday.
My family’s dog, when I was growing up, was an adopted dog that I got in a shelter for my birthday. I’ve always felt really strongly about adopting animals and trying to save animals’ lives.
My birthday is in November, so I think I’m a Scorpio? I’m not even sure!
I’ve been singing since I could talk. I started playing the piano when I was about 5 or 6. I picked up the guitar on my 20th birthday.
Don’t invite me to a surprise birthday party. I don’t have room for that secret. I’ve got enough real secrets I have to keep: dark, life-destroying secrets.
In the world of online invitations, nothing is sacred. People will invite all 500 of their ‘closest’ friends to their birthday party – and 485 of those people will RSVP ‘yes’ without intending to show up.
I am a birthday person. I am not modest about birthdays.
I like spending time with my family and friends on my birthday.
What turned me into an environmentalist, on my eleventh birthday, was seeing the first strip mine.
My 21st birthday was probably the worst day of my life.
From the age of 17 through my 20s, I was living on my own, so sometimes I wouldn’t even tell anybody it was my birthday. It was not a big thing for me.
It turns out I share a birthday with Jose Mourinho. He is exactly 10 years older than me.
We’ve all seen those spoiled little brats that end up being given everything and on their 17th birthday get a Ferrari. That whole thing I just can’t bear it.
My birthday is generally a very quiet affair.
I want to feel pampered and special on my birthday.
I didn’t start auditioning until my 10th birthday when I auditioned for ‘Matilda’ The Musical in London! It was actually the first time I realized that it was a career I could pursue.
I’m not really big on gifts. I like giving back on my birthday.
I was about to get on a plane and take my husband away for his birthday, I thought oh I have tummy ache. I went into A&E and they said ‘oh, you need surgery,’ it was really weird – it was appendicitis.
My birthday, I don’t really see it as a special day, to be honest. It’s just another day for me.
I find the best birthday plans are the unplanned ones.
