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I love Bollywood films, but I have been trained in independent cinema.

I am trained in theatre, and so I take time to study and get into the skin of a character.

Sarita Choudhury

I think I have a certain awkwardness, and I don't know how that works on screen.

Sarita Choudhury

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

My parents live in Kolkata, so I come every year.

Sarita Choudhury

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

I have always loved doing accents. I have lived with my parents in a number of countries, including Italy and Jamaica.

Sarita Choudhury

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

Sarita Choudhury

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

Sarita Choudhury

No matter how much I read the news, I feel slightly ignorant all the time.

Sarita Choudhury

Having grown up in different countries - Jamaica, Italy, U.K. - I catch the accents quite easily. In the U.S., they don't know where I am from!

Sarita Choudhury

I know I create major reactions in people.

Sarita Choudhury

My early acting was ingenue stuff.

Sarita Choudhury

I want my life to match my work now. I don't want to work and then travel. I want to be at one place.

Sarita Choudhury

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

I live in New York, so I don't get that many Indian scripts.

Sarita Choudhury

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.

Sarita Choudhury

I was raised around the world.

Sarita Choudhury

I love Bollywood films, but I have been trained in independent cinema.

Sarita Choudhury

For 'For Real,' where I play a singer who has to give up her passion for her husband and family, I practised singing for hours, in bathroom, in subways, though I am tone deaf.

Sarita Choudhury

I go about doing my work passionately.

Sarita Choudhury

I don't think of the characters as nationalities. I do not live in India. Playing people from different backgrounds, including Indians, comes easily to me.

Sarita Choudhury

Theatre reminds me of Bollywood.

Sarita Choudhury

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

I was very shy about acting. I thought you had to be confident. I was confident with my friends, but I would never think of acting in front of anyone else.

Sarita Choudhury

People have this impression that once you move to America, that becomes your interest. But I never moved to Los Angeles; I stayed in New York because I do theatre, so my aim is not just Hollywood.

Sarita Choudhury

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

Sarita Choudhury