Top 66 Sameera Reddy Quotes

Working with Gautham Menon is like working with a friend. He says the scene once and I do it once and he okays it. He is very quick.

It’s been an ultimate pleasure to work with Buddhada.

You have to go through a point where you actually hate yourself because when you come to this point of hating yourself so much and break into pieces, you can put yourself back together in the most beautiful way possible.

I have come a long way from the days of ‘Vaaranam Aayiram.’

The south has really been very kind to me. I represent each state with their industry, right from Sandalwood to Tollywood. Working with top stars like Chiranjeevi, Surya, Mohanlal is a brilliant experience.

One thing that needs to change in the industry is expectations from women. I think there have been a lot of instances where I have been approached in inappropriate ways.

When I did Mira Nair’s film on AIDS, people told me to stay away from it and even asked me reasons why I chose to do a film on the stigma. My reason for choosing the movie is similar. It is a social reality and there is no harm being a part of a movie like this as it really dissects the reality of the crisis.

An actress projects herself exactly the way she wants to.

There are a lot of women I look up to.

Most actresses began their career as glamorous pin-ups before being noticed for their acting talents.

I just don’t like to comment on my personal life.

If men find my legs sexy, wonderful.

I love the half sari. It’s very, very feminine and at the same time, has the look of a sari.

I have always done justice to my role and I don’t worry about being overshadowed.

When you are a queen in your own country, why would you want to go anywhere else?

Buddhada affirmed my faith in myself. For that, I will be always grateful.

The shooting of ‘Nadunisai Naigal’ started at 7 in the evening and ended by 4 in the morning. Physically too, it was a very demanding film as I have a lot of action scenes. I had to run, roll in the mud and was chased by dogs. It was not an easy film to shoot.

Vettai’ is a lovely film! I knew it would click big time.

I appeared in Pankaj Udhas’ ‘Ahista’ video purely on instinct. I had turned down everything that had come my way till then. After I heard the storyline and the fact that were shooting in Sydney, I agreed. When the song went on air, I was still in Sydney.

We have been fed such unreal standards of beauty that we have now become victims and part of this process that one cannot break.

It’s important to me that I need to know what my character is about.

An actor had made a comment and said, ‘You are so unapproachable.’ He called me boring and said, ‘You’re no fun.’ He also said, ‘I don’t know if I ever want to work with you again.’ And I never worked with him after that film.

Everyone told me that after what you went through during the first pregnancy, do you really want to get pregnant again? I was said, ‘yes!’

What’s the harm to be in the media glare if you have nothing to hide?

I got pregnant in just a couple of months after my marriage. The game plan was to have the pregnancy and bounce back and getting in the limelight again. But I have never experienced anything like that… It was just the opposite.

I took a two month break after ‘Maine Dil Tujhko Diya.’

I had to constantly try and fit in it and it really exhausted and tired me. I don’t regret it because that was my learning to learn to come to this point of loving myself unconditionally.

I felt like Lara Croft while doing stunts.

Akshai has his own range of mo’bikes. That’s how we met.

I come from a non-filmi background.

I was always focused on having kids. I knew that I am not a mother who will give birth then leave the kid, I just couldn’t. I am not saying it is wrong or right but I just couldn’t do it. It was my choice.

Whether it’s me or Mallika or anybody, I always say that ‘Tezz’ is a very good product and it is a very good film.

Women should be looked at as much more than objects of glamour. We have a lot more to offer.

Baking is fun! I find it very therapeutic, a stress buster.

I’ve always admired Demi Moore. She has managed to be everyone including, G. I. Jane, which is really, really hot.

Action is not easy.

For my wedding, I wanted a minimalist look.

My mother does not give up and she never has on anything. I love her zest for life. She has never ever let me accept defeat when it comes to goals that I’ve had or even if it is just making sure that I never lose my zest for life.

Buddhada was a man of few words. You can see the importance of silence in his cinema. There are long stretches of no dialogue in his films.

I have been grey since I was 20 years old!

With Priyadarshan, he is extremely strict but lets me do what I want. You have that kind of freedom as an artiste.

I have done a film like ‘Kaalpurush’ by Buddhadeb Dasgupta and then I also have movies like ‘Musafir,’ where I am an out-and-out glam doll. So I do all kinds of cinema.

The thrills of riding a bike and having to do speedy stunts are something I’ve discovered I love like crazy.

While ‘Tezz’ is being touted as an action-thriller, I feel there is an immense emotional connect.

I must say Action is not at all easy. It is scary.

To be honest, my videos are for myself. I didn’t look at social media as a vehicle for my comeback.

I always go with what I feel is right.

One doesn’t gossip with a genius.

You can’t brand an artiste and take away the fact that he or she wants to do something genuinely different.

When I was pregnant for the first time, I could not believe how I gained so much weight.

I want all women – teens, young women, older women, pregnant women, ageing women – to love and accept themselves.

I was a glamorous actress in Mumbai. I had done Sanjay Gupta’s ‘Musafir.’ I wanted to know how Buddhada thought of me in the role of Supriya, Rahul Bose’s unhappy wife in ‘Kaalpurush.’ It needs a visionary film-maker to see an actor in a role that seems very removed from her real personality or on-screen image.

Apart from studies and playtime, I involve my son in house cleaning and other chores.

I don’t believe two actresses can be best friends. It’s an absolute myth.

Children need to be comforted when they’re sick.

Making peace with one’s choices is always a tricky feat to achieve.

The perfect body and the perfect face that I worked on, for my film career, broke apart and I was completely lost.

I don’t believe in a solo role which doesn’t have any meaning.

At the end of the day, I am a Kathak dancer!

I eat my dinner early and go to bed by 11 P.M.

I never really socialised and I know that helps a lot in getting films. But it’s fine. It’s the nature of the business.

What happened during my first pregnancy was that I took a lot of hormones. I had problems with my pregnancy and I was bed-ridden. I had tonnes of issues but it was my mental state that consumed me. I felt like I failed at myself.

I would never party or hang out with the actors post my shoot. I would head back home and rather watch TV.

I am tall and naturally built for action, I think.

Post-partum depression is real and while I was told about it, I wasn’t sure what to expect.

In Bollywood, better the body you have, the brighter are your chances of bagging roles.