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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. "

Sarita Choudhury

Friends

Think

I Am

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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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" 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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Weird

First Time

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

" I go about doing my work passionately. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" My early acting was ingenue stuff. "

" 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 know I create major reactions in people. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Theatre reminds me of Bollywood. "

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Reminds

Theatre

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

" 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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Woman

She

" 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. "

Sarita Choudhury

Know

Theatre

" My parents are really open-minded, but with their own daughter, it's not the same thing. "