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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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" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My first time nude was with a woman director, so I thought it would be easy, but it wasn't. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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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" 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. "

" I know I create major reactions in people. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Sarita Choudhury

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "