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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! "

Sarita Choudhury

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I believe in doing a nude scene only when I trust the director. "

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

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" My early acting was ingenue stuff. "

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" 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. "

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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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" The conventional Indian movie industry is not for me: I cannot dance around trees or the water-fountain. "

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

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" I would do Bollywood, but I don't know if I could do that - the dance, the singing, the kind of flirting with your eyes, the outfits. "

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

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

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" Playing Frida was hard and wonderful. I found such a force in her, bigger than me. I tried to make it just a woman who had to do what she did. A woman who lived, ate, and laughed. I tried to avoid the 'icon' of Frida Khalo. "

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

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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 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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" I can speak Hindi, but I can't sustain it over a whole movie. "

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" I was raised around the world. "

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" Theatre reminds me of Bollywood. "

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

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" 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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" I know I create major reactions in people. "

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" When you have a good director, it's just wonderful. "

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" I loved my role in 'Learning to Drive.' It was so different. "

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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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" 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. "

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" In England, entertainment by and for Indians is huge. "

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" 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. "

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