“As much as I like being rescued. Every girl does … Now 13, 15 years later, whatever, I think that the movies that I do, I’m irreplaceable and the boys are replaceable,” Bollywood-Hollywood superstar Priyanka Chopra tells Time Magazine.

NEW YORK – ‘TIME’ magazine released its annual list of the 100 most influential people, and Bollywood-Hollywood superstar Priyanka Chopra tops the list alongside entertainment heavyweights Ariana Grande, Nicky Minaj and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Priyanka Chopra has already accomplished a lot in her acting career, with some 50 films to her credit, and she’s only on the up-and-up. The actress and TIME 100 honoree stars in the hit show Quantico on ABC and will appear in the the upcoming movie reboot of Baywatch.

Priyanka Chopra's company is producing it's first ever Punjabi film starring music-films star Amrinder GillBut she’s had to work hard to get where she is. In an interview with TIME, Chopra explained that as a young actress, she was treated as a dime a dozen.

“When I was very young, I was 19 and I was doing the first few movies, I remember that my dates weren’t working out. My scheduling wasn’t working out for a movie with a very big actor. And the producer said, ‘Well, she can’t work it out, it’s fine, we’ll just cast someone else. Or, you know what? I’ll launch a new girl because girls are replaceable.’ I didn’t understand it then. But I think subconsciously it really worked on my mind, and I started picking up parts which were strong, which were not just the damsel in distress waiting for someone to rescue me,” Chopra tells Time Magazine. “As much as I like being rescued. Every girl does … Now 13, 15 years later, whatever, I think that the movies that I do, I’m irreplaceable and the boys are replaceable.”                           

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          In addition to Priyanka, Ariana, Lin-Manuel and Nicki and Leonardo, Taraji P. Henson, 45, Oscar Isaac, 37, Idris Elba, 43, Gina Rodriguez, 31, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, 43, Melissa McCarthy, 45, Charlize Theron, 40, Aziz Ansari, 33, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, 55, Caitlyn Jenner, 66, Adele, 27, Kendrick Lamar, 28, Gael García Bernal, 37, Mark Rylance, 56, and Alejandro González Iñárritu, 52, made the list.

There are 40 women featured in this year’s TIME 100 list. Olympic gold-medal swimmer Katie Ledecky, 19, is the youngest person on the list. Artist Yayoi Kusama, 87, is the oldest person on the list.

Four of the U.S. presidential candidates made the list as well: Hillary, Donald Trump, 69, Bernie Sanders, 74, and Ted Cruz, 45. President Barack Obama, 54, Paul R

yan, 46, Nikki Haley, 44, John Kerry, 72, and more U.S. political figures are featured this year.

President Obama is on the list for the 11th time, more than any other person in history.