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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. "

Sarita Choudhury

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" 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. "

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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 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. "

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

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

" I go about doing my work passionately. "

" 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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" My early acting was ingenue stuff. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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 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. "