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All Quotes by author - Sarita Choudhury
" A few years ago, I got cast as a white boy in an off-Broadway play. So not only was it colour-blind, it was gender-blind as well. That would never happen in film. "
Years
White
Play
" After a two-year stint at Cheek by Jowl theatre company in London, I put all my energies into breaking into New York's theatre scene. It took me eight years to build enough to play lead roles. "
Play
Me
New
" Anything, really - I'm as comfortable playing an Indian as playing a black woman or a South American. "
Comfortable
American
Black
" For 'For Real,' where I play a singer who has to give up her passion for her husband and family, I practised singing for hours, in bathroom, in subways, though I am tone deaf. "
I Am
Husband
Passion
" For me, what is important is to bring the inner life of these characters - their strengths, contradictions, anguish and triumph - alive. "
Me
Triumph
Alive
" Having grown up in different countries - Jamaica, Italy, U.K. - I catch the accents quite easily. In the U.S., they don't know where I am from! "
Catch
Up
Know
" I am interested in independent cinema and theatre, and they don't make news. "
Cinema
News
Independent
" I am trained in theatre, and so I take time to study and get into the skin of a character. "
Theatre
Time
Skin
" I believe in doing a nude scene only when I trust the director. "
Only
Trust
Doing
" I can speak Hindi, but I can't sustain it over a whole movie. "
Movie
Hindi
Whole
" I don't think of the characters as nationalities. I do not live in India. Playing people from different backgrounds, including Indians, comes easily to me. "
Think
Playing
People
" If a filmmaker is making a movie about a nice Midwestern family or a story that needs a very white character or a black or a Chinese, then I don't expect to go up for it. But I know, especially in places like New York, there's no excuse not to see various colors. "
Family
See
Character
" If I am playing a historical character, I try to watch the person in newsreels and read about them, but I will not imitate them. "
Character
Watch
Try
" If you ever watch me at theatre rehearsals, you will know what a bad actress I am. I am bad... bad... bad... and then, by opening night, it all just falls into place. "
Know
Me
Theatre
" I go about doing my work passionately. "
About
Work
Doing
" I have always loved doing accents. I have lived with my parents in a number of countries, including Italy and Jamaica. "
Parents
Always
Loved
" I have an Indian father, and when you grow up in a house with an Indian father, culturally, that's what becomes dominant in the house. So that's the tradition we grew up with. "
You
Tradition
Grow
" I know I create major reactions in people. "
Reactions
Create
Know
" I live in New York. I go to dance class; I do theatre. When things are sent to me, if I like them, I push to do them. And I would absolutely love to do anything that's part of my dad's homeland. "
Live
Theatre
New York
" I live in New York, so I don't get that many Indian scripts. "
New York
Get
Indian
" I love Bollywood films, but I have been trained in independent cinema. "
Love
Been
Cinema
" I loved my role in 'Learning to Drive.' It was so different. "
Loved
Different
Drive
" I love theatre because of the audience. It feels risky. But I love film because it travels to the whole world. To an audience I don't see. "
See
Love
Theatre
" In America, they often don't know where I am from. The important point is the audience should not be able see through it. It should be so natural that your close friends may even think that you are not a great actor. "
Friends
Think
I Am
" In England, entertainment by and for Indians is huge. "
Indians
Huge
Entertainment
" I think I have a certain awkwardness, and I don't know how that works on screen. "
Screen
Works
How
" It's like everyone says they love my body, but then I'm supposed to lose weight. "
Body
Weight
Love
" It was strange wearing the scarf and the hijab until I got used to it. "
Scarf
Strange
Got
" I've always wanted to do an Indian film, but I didn't want to come to India and pretend that I could play an average Bombay girl. "
Always
Girl
Play
" I wanted to move between film and theater - I never felt like I fit into TV. And I'm very anti-TV, like, 'I'm never going to do TV,' but also, TV didn't want me either, so it was kind of perfect. And then, of course, cable happened, and suddenly it was like, 'Oh, I could do that kind of stuff.' "
Want
Perfect
Never
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