Sarita Choudhury

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

— Sarita Choudhury

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

— Sarita Choudhury

See, all actors pretend. I enjoy that pretence. I don't wear heels in real life, but if it is for a character,…

— Sarita Choudhury

Anything, really - I'm as comfortable playing an Indian as playing a black woman or a South American.

— Sarita Choudhury

My parents are really open-minded, but with their own daughter, it's not the same thing.

— 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…

— Sarita Choudhury

There is this film called 'La Femme Nikita.' I want to play something like that. This woman with a gun in her…

— Sarita Choudhury

I would do Bollywood, but I don't know if I could do that - the dance, the singing, the kind of flirting…

— Sarita Choudhury

Playing Frida was hard and wonderful. I found such a force in her, bigger than me. I tried to make it just…

— Sarita Choudhury

To do a movie with someone like Tom Hanks that when you tell your dad, your dad knows who Tom Hanks is…

— Sarita Choudhury

Some people are very ambitious and plan their whole careers, but I am not that kind of a person.

— 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…

— Sarita Choudhury

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

— 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…

— Sarita Choudhury

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

— Sarita Choudhury

For me, what is important is to bring the inner life of these characters - their strengths, contradictions, anguish and triumph -…

— Sarita Choudhury

I love theatre because of the audience. It feels risky. But I love film because it travels to the whole world. To…

— Sarita Choudhury

My early acting was ingenue stuff.

— Sarita Choudhury

I believe in doing a nude scene only when I trust the director.

— Sarita Choudhury

I go about doing my work passionately.

— Sarita Choudhury

In America, they often don't know where I am from. The important point is the audience should not be able see through…

— Sarita Choudhury

After a two-year stint at Cheek by Jowl theatre company in London, I put all my energies into breaking into New York's…

— Sarita Choudhury

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

— 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…

— Sarita Choudhury

My first time nude was with a woman director, so I thought it would be easy, but it wasn't.

— Sarita Choudhury