Top 44 Padmapriya Janakiraman Quotes

Some years you have more work and some years less. That does not bother me. What matters is the end product.

Nowhere in the world will you find a cowboy speaking in Tamil.

Cinema is a male-dominated bastion and one has to be patient.

I am a greedy actor, and it upsets me losing work I have wanted to do, but that is a motivator not a dampener.

I don’t do movies for the awards. The awards are made for the films. The films are not made for the awards.

There is a certain fictional element that goes in playing a common person.

When you live with a character in your mind, after a while you start to behave like them, act like them and connect with them. That is how acting happens for me.

I do want to get into the government and work for finance management divisions and policy management, but they are all long-term dreams and I don’t know when I’ll decide to go for it.

I am comfortable doing glamorous roles and have no qualms going nude if the character demands it.

In any language, I would like to do my best!

I had a smooth take-off in Malayalam, I would like to explore more and take up films that are different in Tamil.

I was supposed to do Beautiful,’ and when I watched the movie, I knew that I had missed out on a great opportunity.

As an artiste, you get a high when you are given roles that are challenging.

I always celebrated my birthdays with my parents. There is no question of not being with them on that day.

I would like to be part of all kind of cinema and will jump at any opportunity that allows me to experiment as an actor.

If I am destined to do more Telugu films, I will.

Tamil has given me an experience that’s extremely rich from Vishnu’s Pattiyal’ to Chimbudevan’s Irrumbakottai,’ to even a small significant role in Ram’s Thangameengal.’

When you see the phase of 60s and 70s, the craze for Dev Anand and actors of that era, it still exists in south. The craze is huge but that’s also for stars like Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan and Mohanlal, especially for male stars.

In director V K Prakash’s ‘Poppins,’ I’ll reprise the same role I did in its Kannada version.

I would love to do Malayalam films.

I sign films that have significance for my characters or are big entertainers.

The reason why I returned to dance is simply because I love dance. I had also promised myself that I wanted to make more sense of dance, study and understand it far more in detail.

I started dancing at a young age. When I became busy with films and studies, dance took a back seat. Also, it was constricting for someone like me, who is not religious, to do something which is so deified.

See, modern dance forms have a pull because the youngsters can relate to it, but it makes me happy to say that in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, people still relate to classical art forms.

When the women in any other film industry are almost equal to men, in Malayalam only one or two women are among the crew.

I love food and love cooking.

Changing age old patriarchal mindsets is a difficult long process and involves constant communication and dialogue.

Malayalam films just fell into my lap.

I am basically a theatre artiste. However, after stepping into cinema, I did not get much opportunity to act in plays.

Three months after reaching the U.S., hurricane Sandy struck, and I had to spend four days in the university shelter. Though I have worked for projects on environment displacement in the past, it was the first time that I actually experienced one and understood how attached one can be to your regular shelter.

The starting point of social movements stems from deep pain and intolerance towards loss already incurred and hence any gain including just voicing the injustice empowers the movement and everybody else around them.

Usually people are apprehensive about facing the camera for the first time. But for me, it was the most natural thing.

Actually, I am a typical middle-class girl.

I don’t believe in cutting down or increasing the number of films I do.

When you have a meaty character to play opposite an actor you like, it becomes a memorable experience.

I am super lucky to have a resume which has all kinds of filmmakers and films and hence experiences as a person and actress for me.

I think classical dance is not seeing the evolution seen by classical music.

I am not a good actor. There is much more to do and learn.

The only philosophy that I’m not confused about in life is love.

As an actor, I just made the most of the opportunities that came my way and I owe it to my directors for having given me characters with substance, as I have never gone around asking for a role.

I am not against the idea of looking sexy. But I don’t like women being looked at as mere objects of sex.

Anger, pain and a tinge of joy are the recursive emotions I have been waking up to ever since I read reports on how Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed women in Hollywood for years. Some of these women are actors I have been longing to co-star with even if they reside in another part of the globe.

I hate flashy metrosexual men. I prefer a rustic man who will make a long-time companion.

Lack of dignity and equal opportunity at workplace for women in cinema is a truth that needs role reversal.