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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. "

Sarita Choudhury

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Theatre

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

" Theatre reminds me of Bollywood. "

Sarita Choudhury

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Theatre

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

" See, all actors pretend. I enjoy that pretence. I don't wear heels in real life, but if it is for a character, I love to get into the traits of the person I am playing. "

" 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. "

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

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

Sarita Choudhury

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Alive

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I know I create major reactions in people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was raised around the world. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Sarita Choudhury

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Done

" 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. "

" My early acting was ingenue stuff. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Sarita Choudhury

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She

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