Top 30 Tisca Chopra Quotes

The mid-90s were really not the high point of fashion for anybody – I had a fashion disaster when I wore heavily sequined clothes which cut my armpits and I bled during the filming of my first movie!

I have done a workshop with Nasseruddin Shah and will continuing doing it whenever I am free.

I started doing theatre with Satyadev Dubey at Prithvi and I had to start from scratch. I had fallen in love with the craft of acting by then.

I have known my editor, Vidhi Bhargava, since our school days.

As an actor, we are always greedy to do more and imagining different films.

Happiness comes from different things. The kind of exposure and reach you get from a film, it makes you happy. Any film that you do has a lot of reach.

For me, script is the key and it has to be potent, and powerful.

I didnt and I dont have any hesitation in playing mother on screen. If given a chance, I can even play a father.

The casting couch exists in every business where there is power dynamics and manipulation.

Television is a different medium and I am happy I could reach out to different kinds of audiences.

The pandemic hastened the dominance of the web as the chief agent of entertainment. Big experience films will of course stay on as the friends and family outing mainstay. But viewing has already shifted to personal screens where the choice of time and content stays with the individual.

Yoga is my all-time go to exercise. When I travel, a yoga mat accompanies me.

Acting Smart is a handbook to help one navigate through the industry. Ive spoken to filmmakers such as Imtiaz Ali and Raju Hirani, Boman Irani and other actors, as well as designers such as Manish Malhotra and Wendell Rodricks.

Meryl Streep spoke about roles drying up. If that happened to her, can you imagine our plight? This is the reality of women performers all over the world.

I like to act, write, produce and direct.

The kind of roles one wants to do arent being written; the stories one wants to tell are few and far between; and the ones that come to me, I do them.

For Mothers Day, we always gave mom a perfume and on Fathers Day, we gave dad a pen. Funnily, every year, we used to steal it from their drawer and give it back every year.

People are used to seeing me in make-up and blow-dried hair but after a point I felt like pushing myself. As an actor, I try to inhabit the character. It is the way to tell people about your skills through your looks.

I thought a book demystifying menstruation and talking about the simple biology of it would go a long way in making young impressionable girls surer of their bodies.

I want to do an action film, I would love to do a period drama, a biopic, a crime story.

If you are unhappy, you cant raise a happy child. One should follow their passion and do something they like.

I am entirely against censorship. It goes against my basic grain – a mature society need not be told what to do.

Its always nice to work with fresh directors. They bring such passion and enthusiasm to the work.

I believe I owe it to my body to keep it supple and fit.

Mornings are the most crucial time of day for me. I like the silence.

My movies had flopped but discovering theatre was perhaps the biggest things that happened to me at 22.

Television is instant gratification. We do an episode and we instantly get a reaction for the same. Theatre on the other hand is very satisfying as an actor. It is purely a few thousand people who come to watch the theatre.

I am planning to start my own production house and am keen on exploring some new ideas.

In our heads, only people with celebrity status, glamour and bling pop out as people who have stories. I find the ordinary life exciting – there is something dark and mysterious about it.

I dont eat after 7 pm or before about 10.30 am. I have a massive sweet tooth that I am constantly struggling to control, but I dont like alcohol, so thats a big plus. I do drink at least 2 litres of water a day, and include chia seeds in whatever form I can.