Top 50 Konkona Sen Sharma Quotes

The whole era of post-Partition and pre-liberalization fascinated me.

I get roles where I’m the activist type or I’m always morally upright.

Working with my mother is unlike working with any other director.

I’m reading Elena Ferrante’s ‘Neapolitan’ novels. They are amazing. I feel like she gets the entire experience of being a woman.

I used to cry regularly. I felt a lot of pressure to look a certain way.

Your body is not your own when you are acting in a film. It becomes your character’s body. Everyone sees you like that and builds up perceptions of you that have nothing to do with you.

‘Wake Up Sid’ was a very special script. It was director Ayan Mukherjee’s first film and it was beautifully written.

I would like to act in a film that I can watch even after five years without getting bored.

I directed ‘Death in the Gunj’ which released in 2017. It got very good reviews and a few awards but did not do well at the box-office. But I’m not bothered. I made the film that I wanted to make. It was not a film for everyone.

Which actress wouldn’t want to work with Vishal Bharadwaj? I have worked with him before and I really like his sensibility.

I am the kind of person if I like something I will wear it till I get bored.

Although several actors have worked in films down South, I feel unsure of whether I will be able to emote and act as exuberantly as I do in Hindi and Bengali films.

Irrfan is a very normal, laidback, regular guy. It has always been a pleasure and great fun working with him.

I don’t like this word, ‘Feminazis,’ or ‘libtard.’ I don’t like these words, because I feel there’s no true understanding of the word ‘feminism,’ there’s no understanding of the word ‘liberal,’ and I find these very derogatory and insulting.

It befuddles me why I was offered so many intense, intellectual movies when I don’t take myself seriously.

It doesn’t matter what people think about me on screen. I will take up and do role which excite me and are interesting.

I like to keep busy because it gives me a lot of balance and perspective.

I’m not too keen on dancing, I can’t dance too well.

I like my role in ‘Akira,’ which is a remake of a south Indian film. I play the role of a pregnant cop like the original. So, since it’s the role of a pregnant cop, luckily I didn’t have to do any stunts.

It’s not like I have anything against it, I just chose the kind of films that appeal to me, and mindless entertainers don’t often appeal to me.

I do get offered all kind of films by and large, but the bulk of it I may say is of a certain sensibility.

I know the ropes of this industry, and I also know how unpredictable it can be.

Some of them are good while some are rubbish! But I am grateful for all my films.

I know that my worldview is not a majoritarian one, that it’s not a popular way of thinking.

As long as I like the script, speak the language and feel interested in the plot, I can play any role.

We have done ‘Talvar’ in three different parts, recreating three different scenarios. And so, it was very interesting for me as a performer to be a part of this film.

But I’d love to have a uniform to wear every day and not have to worry about expressing myself with my outfits – which is also fine once in a while.

I have never been a mass appeal kind of an actor, so I don’t have to worry. I don’t have to please everyone.

Not everybody is exactly the same, and superficially, we are all different in different ways. The common thread is the humanity that binds us.

If you see films which have been successful over the last 10 years, the women in them have been in their 20s. ‘The Dirty Picture’ and ‘English Vinglish’ are two I can think of. But there are very few good roles for women in their 30s.

My mom single-handedly brought up two girls, although my father was also a large part of my life.

Every community is important in its own way and every community has its place within our country. But there is some integration between communities, that is a beautiful thing.

I mean I loved ‘English Vinglish’ and I love Sridevi, but ‘English Vinglish’ still needs a Sridevi to get made, it’s not like it’s just any unknown actor.

I love working with my mother. I have a huge amount of respect and admiration for her. She is one of the best filmmakers and she has always given me absolutely fantastic roles.

I feel liberated as a woman, in the way I live my life. However, it’s not always reflected in the world around me. So I feel privileged but also isolated.

Whenever I get time to myself, I travel, watch films, hang out with friends.

I’m very serious about my career. If someone feels that I carry a serious heroine tag, so be it.

I did ‘Talvar’ because I liked the script and my role.

It seems that the ideal age for a Bollywood heroine is 24, which is great, but it would be nice to see some older women too on the big screen.

I don’t like discussing about my personal life in front of everyone.

Sippy Films have made some fabulous mainstream movies.

It is important that all kind of films are made.

If I love the script and have a good rapport with the director, then first-time director can also be very special.

I think the female gaze is important because we cannot have just one perspective on anything.

I wish that Bollywood weren’t so youth and beauty obsessed when it comes to women. I think it is very ‘under representative’ of women in their 30s.

My parents are my best friends and I would tell them things that I would tell nobody as they would never judge me and would always support me.

Who are these people who are taking these decisions of casting only young actors in films? It is the filmmakers and the film producers. I don’t know if that is what the audience wants because I really believe that masses respond to a good story.

I had a baby and that is pretty time consuming.

We don’t live in a primitive society any more. Many of us are lucky enough to be educated. We also realize that gender and sexuality is a spectrum.

It is quite hard to be a working mother. At the same time, it is hugely rewarding. I have learnt to appreciate working mothers everywhere because millions of women are doing that, including my maid.