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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 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. "

Sarita Choudhury

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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. "

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

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

" 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

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

" I know I create major reactions in people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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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" I go about doing my work passionately. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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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" 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. "

" I was raised around the world. "

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