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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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" 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. "

Sarita Choudhury

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Myself

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I know I create major reactions in people. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Theatre reminds me of Bollywood. "

Sarita Choudhury

Reminds

Theatre

" 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. "

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

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

" It was strange wearing the scarf and the hijab until I got used to it. "

" 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 am trained in theatre, and so I take time to study and get into the skin of a character. "

" My early acting was ingenue stuff. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

Woman

She

" 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

Catch

Know

" 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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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