54 Quotes by Sarita Choudhury

Unless you enjoy life passionately, you cannot be a good artiste. Practise what you like, be it sports or dancing.

Theatre is highly satisfying in terms of words. You get to speak in monologues; words drive the action.

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.

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.'

See, all actors pretend. I enjoy that pretence. I don't wear heels in real life, but if it is for a character, I love to get into the traits of the person I am playing.

When you have a good director, it's just wonderful.

The first time I put on the hijab, it felt weird, like I was wearing a scuba-diving suit kind of thing.

I would do Bollywood, but I don't know if I could do that - the dance, the singing, the kind of flirting with your eyes, the outfits.

In America, they often don't know where I am from. The important point is the audience should not be able see through it. It should be so natural that your close friends may even think that you are not a great actor.