Films like 'Shaan,' 'Sholay,' 'Muqaddar Ka Sikander' and so many others... they've been a part of my growing up years. Tabu More Quotes by Tabu More Quotes From Tabu 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. Tabu yourself you freedom money I am never embarrassed to relax. I am not part of any rat race. I am very happy to be by myself. Tabu i-am myself relax happy I only do work that suits my temperament. Tabu only temperament suits work 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. Tabu end beginning experience journey 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. Tabu great good experience people My fans tell me my height is my biggest asset. Tabu tell me height fans I never felt the need to be in the rat race. Tabu rat need never race '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. Tabu me being-different work people I am happy and content with my work and career. Tabu i-am-happy i-am work happy 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. Tabu over thought moon character I am glad that people have become more accepting of female characters. Tabu i-am more become people Every character, before they are heroes or villains, they are human beings. Tabu heroes human human-beings character 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. Tabu never me dark people I come from a generation that had no monitors on the sets. You had to go with the director's conviction and be happy with it. I still work like that. Tabu be-happy you work happy I could never understand the herd mentality. I have always fought to do things my way and have stuck to that. Tabu never understand always way You cannot analyse your personality. It is like trying to understand the essential characteristics of a person. Tabu person understand you personality Most stabilizing part of my career is that I have done all genres. I hate classification. Tabu career most hate done Whether the film is a Hindi film or in a South Indian language, I don't think it matters. Tabu matters think film language I think every actor worth his or her salt wants to do good, meaningful cinema. Tabu worth good think cinema Since I am originally from Hyderabad, I speak Telugu fluently. Tabu telugu am i-am speak
