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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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" 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. "

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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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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" My first time nude was with a woman director, so I thought it would be easy, but it wasn't. "

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" It's like everyone says they love my body, but then I'm supposed to lose weight. "

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

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

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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. "

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

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

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

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

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" I go about doing my work passionately. "

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" 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. "

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" I know I create major reactions in people. "

Sarita Choudhury

" 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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" I am interested in independent cinema and theatre, and they don't make news. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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