Sharmila Tagore

What is my truth can not be your truth.

— Sharmila Tagore

I am a Bengali, I like my rice.

— Sharmila Tagore

I don't have any problem in working.

— Sharmila Tagore

I studied music at Dakhhini.

— Sharmila Tagore

I travel quite a bit.

— Sharmila Tagore

If you seek learning, it meets you somewhere down the road.

— Sharmila Tagore

Being a Bengali, I have kept in touch with the cinema of my mother tongue.

— Sharmila Tagore

I dropped out of college before graduation. I opted to begin work as an actress.

— Sharmila Tagore

I wanted to change my image. That's why I did 'Aradhana.'

— Sharmila Tagore

It's really rewarding working with young people.

— Sharmila Tagore

You cannot force anybody to honour somebody. You can only ask.

— Sharmila Tagore

Every age bracket has to be respected and it should be embraced naturally.

— Sharmila Tagore

We've always had very strong women in my family.

— Sharmila Tagore

There's nothing like young children's energy... They are always curious, and enthusiastic about many different things.

— Sharmila Tagore

I don't enjoy going to a very big wedding or a party or a huge gathering where there are lots of people.…

— Sharmila Tagore

We are a layered society, so what may be taken easily by an urban audience may not go down well with those…

— Sharmila Tagore

I want to highlight this, that to make meaningful cinema, we really need an enabling environment and freedom to express.

— Sharmila Tagore

I was very close to Mani Rabadi. She not only designed my clothes in some of my films, she was also a…

— Sharmila Tagore

When you are doing a film for money or to help a friend out, be clear about the motives and then finish…

— Sharmila Tagore

Sometimes I do everything and then there are times when I don't want to do anything at all.Most importantly , I don't…

— Sharmila Tagore

Satyajit Ray has played a very major part in my career. He was the one who gave me the launch platform when…

— Sharmila Tagore

I like to contribute as much as possible to some of the NGOs that I know and in the areas that I…

— Sharmila Tagore

I know that we have to get in there and do something if we want to change the system and get a…

— Sharmila Tagore

I think it's quite a big decision for women to have children. In our time, I don't think we thought so much…

— Sharmila Tagore

I worked with three designers in my heydays - Bhanu Aathiya, Shalini Shah and Mani Rabadi. Out of these, Mani was the…

— Sharmila Tagore

You can't be a passive recipient of images, you have to engage with images and read their subtexts. These are critical things…

— Sharmila Tagore

Earlier Bollywood was a fly-by kind of business which few wished to be involved in. Now Bollywood is good business and everybody…

— Sharmila Tagore

Some may want to be a homemaker and some want to follow other careers and they should be allowed. If we want…

— Sharmila Tagore

There is a mindset that has to be changed - the sense of entitlement of the man. That happens when you are…

— Sharmila Tagore

Change is the only constant in this unsteady world.

— Sharmila Tagore

One cannot afford to be nostalgic about the past and cling onto it.

— Sharmila Tagore

In 1963, when I joined Hindi film industry it raised many eyebrows.

— Sharmila Tagore

I find I am growing fonder of gardening, listening to music and reading.

— Sharmila Tagore

I don't think that cinema is bigger than family as an institution.

— Sharmila Tagore

On the sets, I am just an actress, and I am okay with whoever I am working with.

— Sharmila Tagore

Aradhana' was a very big hit while 'Avishkaar' is a cult film.

— Sharmila Tagore

Except for the pollution, I love everything about Delhi.

— Sharmila Tagore

I follow my heart and I do what I want to.

— Sharmila Tagore

One has to do everything at the right time. That includes motherhood.

— Sharmila Tagore

Bengal's indigenous art and craft is widely popular throughout the world.

— Sharmila Tagore