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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. "
Sarita Choudhury
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" 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. "
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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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" I think I have a certain awkwardness, and I don't know how that works on screen. "
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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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" 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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" 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 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. "
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" No matter how much I read the news, I feel slightly ignorant all the time. "
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" I want my life to match my work now. I don't want to work and then travel. I want to be at one place. "
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" My parents live in Kolkata, so I come every year. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I love Bollywood films, but I have been trained in independent cinema. "
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" I loved my role in 'Learning to Drive.' It was so different. "
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" 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. "
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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 can speak Hindi, but I can't sustain it over a whole movie. "
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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 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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" Theatre reminds me of Bollywood. "
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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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" I know I create major reactions in people. "
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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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" My early acting was ingenue stuff. "
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" 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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" 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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Talking
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Enough
" In England, entertainment by and for Indians is huge. "
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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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