Unless you enjoy life passionately, you cannot be a good artiste. Practise what you like, be it sports or dancing. Sarita Choudhury More Quotes by Sarita Choudhury More Quotes From Sarita Choudhury Theatre is highly satisfying in terms of words. You get to speak in monologues; words drive the action. Sarita Choudhury wordsdriveyouspeak My early acting was ingenue stuff. Sarita Choudhury ingenueearlyactingstuff In England, entertainment by and for Indians is huge. Sarita Choudhury indiansentertainmentenglandhuge I live in New York, so I don't get that many Indian scripts. Sarita Choudhury livenewgetnew-york I love Bollywood films, but I have been trained in independent cinema. Sarita Choudhury bollywoodindependentcinemalove Theatre reminds me of Bollywood. Sarita Choudhury remindsmebollywoodtheatre I believe in doing a nude scene only when I trust the director. Sarita Choudhury doingi-believetrustbelieve Left to myself, I would only play an Indian. But the reality was that there were hardly any Indian characters I could play in the films made in England and Hollywood. So I had to learn how to disappear into a variety of characters. Sarita Choudhury howmyselfplayreality I have always loved doing accents. I have lived with my parents in a number of countries, including Italy and Jamaica. Sarita Choudhury lovedparentsdoingalways I go about doing my work passionately. Sarita Choudhury aboutdoinggowork No matter how much I read the news, I feel slightly ignorant all the time. Sarita Choudhury feelnewsmattertime I wanted to move between film and theater - I never felt like I fit into TV. And I'm very anti-TV, like, 'I'm never going to do TV,' but also, TV didn't want me either, so it was kind of perfect. And then, of course, cable happened, and suddenly it was like, 'Oh, I could do that kind of stuff.' Sarita Choudhury nevermeperfectwant When you do TV, people will say to you right on the street how they're feeling, with no reservations. Sarita Choudhury streetfeelingyoupeople When you have a good director, it's just wonderful. Sarita Choudhury justgoodyouwonderful To do a movie with someone like Tom Hanks that when you tell your dad, your dad knows who Tom Hanks is - it feels like you're finally giving back to your parents. It's like you've actually done something that they can recognize, and there's something in me that makes them super proud. Sarita Choudhury parentsmeyoudad I've always wanted to do an Indian film, but I didn't want to come to India and pretend that I could play an average Bombay girl. Sarita Choudhury indiagirlwantplay After a two-year stint at Cheek by Jowl theatre company in London, I put all my energies into breaking into New York's theatre scene. It took me eight years to build enough to play lead roles. Sarita Choudhury newmetheatreenough A few years ago, I got cast as a white boy in an off-Broadway play. So not only was it colour-blind, it was gender-blind as well. That would never happen in film. Sarita Choudhury boyneverwhiteplay People are always asking me if the industry is changing, and my answer is always that it is changing only as much as we are. Many South Asian actors complain about being pigeonholed into playing terrorists and cab drivers, but it's time that we stop talking about it. The industry will always say 'No' till we have enough to convince them. Sarita Choudhury stopmetimepeople I know I create major reactions in people. Sarita Choudhury createknowmajorpeople
