Top 44 Sharmila Tagore Quotes

Satyajit Ray has played a very major part in my career. He was the one who gave me the launch platform when he selected me for his ‘Apur Sansar.’

The best encouragement is when your films run and people who watch it say ‘Well done.’

Being here and receiving appreciation from the people here in Nantes has a special appeal. But I do believe I have worked hard for it. Very hard.

Except for the pollution, I love everything about Delhi.

I follow my heart and I do what I want to.

My first mother’s role was in ‘Aradhana.’ But after that in mid to late 1980s, I was being offered more roles of mothers.

On the sets, I am just an actress, and I am okay with whoever I am working with.

The craze for the ‘taant er sari,’ terracotta pottery or Bengal jewellery will never wane because Bengal portrays unparalleled diversity.

I do practice active gratitude. In my thoughts, actions words I am deeply grateful for what life has given me.

Human relationships can get awfully demanding and unpredictable. One day you feel one way, the next day you feel something else. That affects relationships. It’s better to spend time with yourself doing the things that you enjoy.

A Tagore surname signifies an association with aesthetics and all the best things of life. It’s enriching both personally and professionally.

We used to do four or five films at a time and were not able to experiment with too many things. But, the heart was in the right place and everybody worked passionately. We had wonderful directors like Bimal Roy, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Raj Kapoor.

Society is patriarchal, so film industry by definition is certainly patriarchal. The male gaze dominated.

I am a Bengali, I like my rice.

The only time I used to regret being a woman was when I had to use the toilets on sets when I would be shooting.

I was very close to Mani Rabadi. She not only designed my clothes in some of my films, she was also a personal friend and guide when I was new to Mumbai.

Being a Bengali, I have kept in touch with the cinema of my mother tongue.

Parents should be told that if they invest in the education and upbringing of a girl child, she will also make contributions for the family and society.

I had loved Tiger for 47 years, was married to him for almost 43. We didn’t make it to 50. But it was a memorable partnership; certainly, an enriching one for me.

I was brought up in a Bengali family. We were three girls and never made to feel any lesser than men.

I wanted to be a painter.

I don’t enjoy going to a very big wedding or a party or a huge gathering where there are lots of people. I enjoy small groups.

What is my truth can not be your truth.

Besides having lived and worked in Maharashtra for several years, working in a Marathi film was quite a challenge.

I wanted to change my image. That’s why I did ‘Aradhana.’

There should be no hindrance to what we want to do, what we want to wear, what we think and how we want to travel. Do what you want to do as long as you are not breaking any law.

Earlier Bollywood was a fly-by kind of business which few wished to be involved in. Now Bollywood is good business and everybody wants to be associated with films. This is definitely a very significant change that I have seen in Bollywood.

I find I am growing fonder of gardening, listening to music and reading.

You cannot force anybody to honour somebody. You can only ask.

Aradhana’ was a very big hit while ‘Avishkaar’ is a cult film.

I still remember the day I had met Bijoya Boudi during the making of ‘Apur Sansar.’ The earliest memories I have of her are she doing up my hair and helping me to tie the sari. There are so many days when she would dress me up for the shoot.

I believe in an artiste’s life, there are two kinds of awards – first is the appreciation and good wishes he or she gets for his work from the audience and secondly, the recognition in the form of awards.

Some may want to be a homemaker and some want to follow other careers and they should be allowed. If we want to be different we should be different and we should be allowed to be different.

We’ve always had very strong women in my family.

Film Club is a necessity in any big university, as it provides a platform and a forum where you can exchange ideas, critique and appreciate historical, classics and contemporary films.

There are more and more adult subjects with explicit language or explicit scenes… Yes, I feel there should be a category for such films so that instead of cutting it, censoring it or deleting a few scenes we can show it in its entirety.

My life changed when I was introduced to Satyajit Ray. It was acting for me thereafter.

One cannot afford to be nostalgic about the past and cling onto it.

When a film is released, anywhere in the country, exactly in the same place people laugh, cry, get bored, what is that, but commonality.

To be a real man, I think you have to be supportive of each other and to be a real woman you have to be supportive of your man, and the man has to do the same thing, only then he would be a real man.

I don’t have any problem in working.

Thanks to multiplexes there are lots of experiments going on and we have some great directors like Sujoy, Shoojit, Dibakar.

When you are doing a film for money or to help a friend out, be clear about the motives and then finish what needs to be done.

People judge us looking from the outside. They don’t really know what is going on in my life. There are hundreds of perspectives out there. I cannot live up to all the expectations.