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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. "

Sarita Choudhury

I Am

Husband

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" For me, what is important is to bring the inner life of these characters - their strengths, contradictions, anguish and triumph - alive. "

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

" 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. "

" There is this film called 'La Femme Nikita.' I want to play something like that. This woman with a gun in her hand but with tears in her eyes. I would love to play that kind of vulnerability on screen. "

" When you do TV, people will say to you right on the street how they're feeling, with no reservations. "

" I think I have a certain awkwardness, and I don't know how that works on screen. "

" I am interested in independent cinema and theatre, and they don't make news. "

" 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. "

" 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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Done

" 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.' "

" My parents are really open-minded, but with their own daughter, it's not the same thing. "

" 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. "

" People are always asking me if the industry is changing, and my answer is always that it is changing only as much as we are. Many South Asian actors complain about being pigeonholed into playing terrorists and cab drivers, but it's time that we stop talking about it. The industry will always say 'No' till we have enough to convince them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" No matter how much I read the news, I feel slightly ignorant all the time. "

" I love Bollywood films, but I have been trained in independent cinema. "

" People have this impression that once you move to America, that becomes your interest. But I never moved to Los Angeles; I stayed in New York because I do theatre, so my aim is not just Hollywood. "

" 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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" It's like everyone says they love my body, but then I'm supposed to lose weight. "

" 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. "

" Unless you enjoy life passionately, you cannot be a good artiste. Practise what you like, be it sports or dancing. "

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

" I am trained in theatre, and so I take time to study and get into the skin of a character. "

" I have always loved doing accents. I have lived with my parents in a number of countries, including Italy and Jamaica. "

" The first time I put on the hijab, it felt weird, like I was wearing a scuba-diving suit kind of thing. "

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