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

Sarita Choudhury

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

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" 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. "

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" I go about doing my work passionately. "

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" 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. "

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" I live in New York, so I don't get that many Indian scripts. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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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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" 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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