Actress Deepika Padukone has admitted that she feels more mature than most 23-year-olds, but would not want to be thought of as old before her time.

The Chandni Chowk to China actress revealed in an interview with The Times of India that she often ends up giving out advice to her badminton star sister Saina as a result of her maturity.

She said: "I like the fact that I’m a little more mature than the average 23-year-old. As long as I don’t sound like a 50-year-old, it’s fine. My only advice to Saina is not to lose her head over endorsements, film offers and all the media attention."She should remember that all that’s coming to her because of what she is, and she is, first and foremost, a good badminton player."Padukone comes from a family of badminton players, with her dad also being heavily involved in the sport.

Sports and Deepika Padukone are inextricably linked. what with her father being a badminton champ.And now Deepika has gotten together with her father Prakash Paudokne in a project to help needy sports people.

Says Deepika, “My father has just started an organization to help promising individual sports persons. I’ve decided to be associated with it. I want to contribute not just financially but also by being there for it physically.I’m dying to do a sports film. But no one has offered me any so far.”

Deepika moves away from her Lucy Lieu act in Chandni Chowk To China to do a very ‘today’ film about a contemporary relationship in Imtiaz Ali’s film with Saif Ali Khan.And the extremely contemporary film often found Deepika drawing references from her own relationship.