Bollywood actress Alia Bhatt received a TIME 100 Impact Award in Singapore on Sunday.

TIME100 Impact Awards recognize leaders who have done extraordinary work to shape their fields and the world at large.

“If it falls to me in any way to lead by example, be a role model or make any kind of impact, I want to do it in as human and as flawed a way as possible,” she said while accepting the award. “Because, after all these years, the thing I’ve realized is: It’s the flaws that make you. Perfection is boring.”

Bhatt said that she’s tried to celebrate flawed people through her movies and characters because after all, it’s the imperfections that make a character compelling.

The Gungubai actor added “In the movies and in life, you do not have to be perfect; you just have to bring everything you have, the lows, the highs, and the real things we are actually afraid of speaking about. There’s no greater impact than being yourself.”

On Tuesday, the Darlings producer shared a video compilation of herself at the ceremony and wrote, “There are so many rules these days, especially for women. Don’t be loud. But don’t be timid. Don’t be too curvy. But don’t be too skinny. Have ambition. But don’t overreach.”

Alia argued that whether we know it or not, we think that in order to be liked, to be loved, to be good, we have to be completely “devoid of fault”, which she said was to be “an impossible, mythical being that could only really exist in the pages of a fairytale.”

She concluded by saying “It’s the flaws that make you, YOU.”