Top 60 Tabu Quotes

As far as TV shows are concerned, I would love to do a travel show.

Every film has been a personal milestone for me.

I laugh, cry, go for movies, eat popcorn. All these things are pretty relaxing for me.

I do a film because I would love to be a part of it, but I also think from the audience’s perspective. Our profession survives because of our audience.

I was really excited when films like ‘Kaala Paani,’ ‘Maachis,’ ‘Chandni Bar’ and others came my way. The sheer fact that I would get to portray various emotions was thrilling.

I always wanted to do good work, the best that I was able to, to really discover myself, getting better with each role, and find newer ways to do the same thing.

I want to act, perform in my own way.

I have not done any film where my role didn’t make sense.

I try not to get typecast in any role, any image. I feel I can do justice to every kind of role, so why not make the best of it? See, commercial films alone can get you only so far. If you want to last as an actress, then you have to put in that extra bit of investment by doing off-beat films, too.

The film industry is actually a tough place to survive.

I am keen on doing the regular Hindi film, but I want strong, meaningful roles in my repertoire, which I get down South. I can devote equal time and attention to both, so I don’t see the clash.

I should be satisfied first as an actor with my work. I will not do something because everyone is doing it.

I had attraction to work with Ang Lee. I wanted to work with him.

Cinema will always remember ‘Life Of Pi.’

‘Meenaxi’ was a lesson in liberation. It taught me to be a free spirit and understand the pleasure of my work by being different people, just like Meenaxi is.

Coming from a middle-class family in Hyderabad, I was an introvert. I chose to be the way I am.

I love to travel. I want to do India by road, the entire length and breadth.

There is always something that you will take away from each project. There definitely has to be something that you have said yes to in the first place. In some projects, it’s the freedom to express yourself more; in some, it’s a bigger sense of camaraderie, and somewhere, it’s the money that is great.

For me, every character takes the same amount of immersion.

I could never understand the herd mentality. I have always fought to do things my way and have stuck to that.

I don’t like to talk about my work. People should see my work and form their opinion based on that, not because of something I said.

I didn’t have a set of rules, dos, and don’ts or a reference point on how I would navigate my career. I never planned to be in a certain place in the industry. I was walking my path and doing things my way.

I never want to stick to one genre of movies and was opened to do everything.

I can’t be objective about my work, because I am so involved that I can’t see it as a product to be judged. I can’t see it as an outsider.

I never planned to be an actress.

People should be good, established people; the filmmaking and acting experience should be heartening. So I chose films where I would get a good experience, not just great roles.

Most stabilizing part of my career is that I have done all genres. I hate classification.

I never thought I was doing any great work. I never thought I would last. In the beginning, I was terrible. I never used to speak to people. I used to start crying. I was extra sensitive. I would run away home and feel miserable. I didn’t know how to behave then. I was touchy. People interpreted it as arrogance.

I don’t have any special approach for playing dark characters. That’s because I never looked at them as dark characters per se. For me, they were real people.

I never felt the need to be in the rat race.

I don’t find a reason to be on Twitter or Facebook. This is my temperament, and I can’t put myself out 24/7 out there. However, I am not judgmental about others being there.

I am proud of my height.

If I feel the role is not going to demand anything out of me, I don’t do it. Either it has to be a terrific role, or the director has to be someone I am dying to work with. Or the costar has to be someone I really look up to.

‘Cheeni Kum’ was one of the nicest experiences.

I do whatever appeals to me. I have always made my own choices.

I know people will only come to me with good roles.

Films like ‘Shaan,’ ‘Sholay,’ ‘Muqaddar Ka Sikander’ and so many others… they’ve been a part of my growing up years.

I have such a temperament that I cannot do anything in excess.

How can I stop acting? I don’t think there is a full stop. Maybe the only time I will stop will be when acting stops fascinating me. I will have to find something that fascinates me more.

Since I am originally from Hyderabad, I speak Telugu fluently.

Working in ‘Mian Maqbool’ was a refreshing experience.

As a viewer, I will go and watch only commercial films.

My fans tell me my height is my biggest asset.

I love to watch people dance. It is the most fantastic skill and art form that anybody can have.

I like to spend time with family and friends and share my experiences with them.

I’ve always gone with the flow.

One never can plan. I just did my work and enjoyed shooting for all my films.

I am the last person who has any judgement about any kind of cinema, least of all commercial cinema because I am a product of commercial cinema.

I always maintain that the film industry and film people across the globe are more or less the same.

I want to complete 100 films.

I really miss doing masala films.

All over the world, actors and actresses are chosen for their performing skills. Not how they look or what they wear. It is all about how they act, how they emote.

I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from others. I did not think it was necessary to do things the way others are doing it.

My relationship with every film is more or less the same, but the experience is the difference. It comes with the people I am working with, the character I play.

I only do work that suits my temperament.

If I am doing a certain kind of cinema, that does not mean I hate the other kind.

I have never done films to prove a point to anyone; I have done them for myself.

I never saw my career as a journey with a beginning, middle, and end, with high points and low points. It is just a whole, big mass of experience, and I take each experience as it comes. I don’t strategise.

I had read Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘Namesake’ and thought it would make a fabulous film, as I could identify with the central character. When Mira Nair announced the film, I wanted to do the role. When it fell into my lap, I was over the moon.

I avoid seeing my films as far as possible because if I don’t like anything, I can’t change it or do it again.