Top 25 Roopa Ganguly Quotes

I would say that every political party must remain in some form in a state or the Centre for the sake of democracy.

I wanted to be an architect, fate took me to films. Now that I am into politics, I want to give my best here.

I still feel the affection of the fans that I get because of my acting career.

Waiting is always a part of people involved in the film industry. Be it on the floor, in the make-up room or at home. All my life I have waited for a good role.

Mamata Banerjee was the reason for me joining politics.

You know, sometimes there’s a difference between what is actually the truth and what you perceive to be the truth through your social conditioning.

I believe that the people who are close to me know who I am and that’s the most important thing for me.

I have struggled in life and this has made me sensitive towards the needs of others. Politics gives you the opportunity to really do something.

I have stayed in homes that didn’t have basic infrastructure such as proper washrooms.

I started a festival of short films produced for television, and as the secretary of the organisation that ran it I used to work very closely with the state government.

I am not a politician-type politician and I want to remain that.

I have always worked with utmost care. I have given my 25 years. I seemed I have more to offer than just acting. So, there is no regret.

I have seen poverty first hand. My parents were not well-off. They were in Ban’gladesh and I – just a child then – was sent off to live in my uncle’s house in Calcutta.

Winning or losing elections is not important. What is important is that I have taken the plunge.

I think it is very difficult for a man to accept a celebrity as his wife. One has to be extremely emancipated to do it. No Indian male is.

Pray for me, I need happiness in life. It was a very tough decision to leave my husband and son and come away to Mumbai and start all over again.

I wanted to play a domestic help all my life… Because I wanted to break my image.

My marriage was always my first priority. I had left my career to go and settle with Dhrubo in Kolkata. I have never behaved like a celebrity at home.

Ours was a family of engineers with no political affiliation; art and culture were the only things that we discussed at home.

I want to build the India that we all want.

Even before I became an artiste, when I barely had the means to support anyone financially, I took care of several destitute women, giving them shelter, food and clothing.

I had moved to Mumbai in 2006 and lived there for around six years while West Bengal was going through a political upheaval. After I returned to Kolkata in February 2012, and started to work here, I realized how things had changed here.

Election results and winning an election is not all about winning the next election or planning to win the next election.

Well, I help some underprivileged children stay and study in Rajpur, near Narendrapur.

I have always been brazen. That’s why I can’t tolerate corruption.