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" The conventional Indian movie industry is not for me: I cannot dance around trees or the water-fountain. "
Sarita Choudhury
Trees
Dance
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" Anything, really - I'm as comfortable playing an Indian as playing a black woman or a South American. "
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" I was raised around the world. "
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" I can speak Hindi, but I can't sustain it over a whole movie. "
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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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" My parents are really open-minded, but with their own daughter, it's not the same thing. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" My early acting was ingenue stuff. "
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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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" Unless you enjoy life passionately, you cannot be a good artiste. Practise what you like, be it sports or dancing. "
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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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Friends
Think
I Am
" 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 live in New York, so I don't get that many Indian scripts. "
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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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New
" 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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" 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! "
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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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" Theatre is highly satisfying in terms of words. You get to speak in monologues; words drive the action. "
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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 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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