54 Quotes by Sarita Choudhury

I was raised around the world.

It was strange wearing the scarf and the hijab until I got used to it.

My early acting was ingenue stuff.

I am interested in independent cinema and theatre, and they don't make news.

When you do TV, people will say to you right on the street how they're feeling, with no reservations.

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.

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.

I have an Indian father, and when you grow up in a house with an Indian father, culturally, that's what becomes dominant in the house. So that's the tradition we grew up with.

Theatre reminds me of Bollywood.