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" Anything, really - I'm as comfortable playing an Indian as playing a black woman or a South American. "

Sarita Choudhury

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" To do a movie with someone like Tom Hanks that when you tell your dad, your dad knows who Tom Hanks is - it feels like you're finally giving back to your parents. It's like you've actually done something that they can recognize, and there's something in me that makes them super proud. "

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" I was very shy about acting. I thought you had to be confident. I was confident with my friends, but I would never think of acting in front of anyone else. "

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" I want my life to match my work now. I don't want to work and then travel. I want to be at one place. "

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" Left to myself, I would only play an Indian. But the reality was that there were hardly any Indian characters I could play in the films made in England and Hollywood. So I had to learn how to disappear into a variety of characters. "

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" 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! "

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" I was raised around the world. "

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" 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. "

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" Some people are very ambitious and plan their whole careers, but I am not that kind of a person. "

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" 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. "

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" My early acting was ingenue stuff. "

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" My parents live in Kolkata, so I come every year. "

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" 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.' "

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" 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. "

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" It was strange wearing the scarf and the hijab until I got used to it. "

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" Theatre reminds me of Bollywood. "

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" Theatre is highly satisfying in terms of words. You get to speak in monologues; words drive the action. "

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" 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. "

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