Words matter. These are the best Sarita Choudhury Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My first time nude was with a woman director, so I thought it would be easy, but it wasn’t.
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 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.
I know I create major reactions in people.
The conventional Indian movie industry is not for me: I cannot dance around trees or the water-fountain.
It was strange wearing the scarf and the hijab until I got used to it.
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.
Theatre reminds me of Bollywood.
Unless you enjoy life passionately, you cannot be a good artiste. Practise what you like, be it sports or dancing.
The first time I put on the hijab, it felt weird, like I was wearing a scuba-diving suit kind of thing.
I am interested in independent cinema and theatre, and they don’t make news.
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.
I loved my role in ‘Learning to Drive.’ It was so different.
I live in New York, so I don’t get that many Indian scripts.
My early acting was ingenue stuff.
I was raised around the world.
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.
Some people are very ambitious and plan their whole careers, but I am not that kind of a person.
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.
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.
When you have a good director, it’s just wonderful.
Anything, really – I’m as comfortable playing an Indian as playing a black woman or a South American.
I go about doing my work passionately.
To do a movie with someone like Tom Hanks that when you tell your dad, your dad knows who Tom Hanks is – it feels like you’re finally giving back to your parents. It’s like you’ve actually done something that they can recognize, and there’s something in me that makes them super proud.
I love Bollywood films, but I have been trained in independent cinema.
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!
Theatre is highly satisfying in terms of words. You get to speak in monologues; words drive the action.
I think I have a certain awkwardness, and I don’t know how that works on screen.
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.
No matter how much I read the news, I feel slightly ignorant all the time.
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.
When you do TV, people will say to you right on the street how they’re feeling, with no reservations.
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.
