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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.

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Play, Give, Hours, Though

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.

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Play, London, Roles, Energies

If you ever watch me at theatre rehearsals, you will know what a bad actress I am. I am bad... bad... bad... and then, by opening night, it all just falls into place.

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Bad, Will, Actress, Rehearsals

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

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Theatre, Get, Terms, Monologues

If a filmmaker is making a movie about a nice Midwestern family or a story that needs a very white character or a black or a Chinese, then I don't expect to go up for it. But I know, especially in places like New York, there's no excuse not to see various colors.

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Movie, Very, About, Midwestern

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.

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Play, England, Films, Hardly

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

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New York, New, York, Indian

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.

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Play, Average, Always, Indian

The conventional Indian movie industry is not for me: I cannot dance around trees or the water-fountain.

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Me, Movie, Conventional, Indian

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

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Woman, Comfortable, South, Indian

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.

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Father, Grow, Dominant, Indian

Theatre reminds me of Bollywood.

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Theatre, Me, Bollywood, Reminds

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

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Love, Been, Films, Bollywood

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.

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Singing, Kind, Could, Bollywood

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.

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Asking, Till, South, Drivers

There is this film called 'La Femme Nikita.' I want to play something like that. This woman with a gun in her hand but with tears in her eyes. I would love to play that kind of vulnerability on screen.

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Love, Play, Gun, Femme

I can speak Hindi, but I can't sustain it over a whole movie.

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Speak, Movie, Over, Hindi

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

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Doing, Always, Including, Jamaica

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!

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Accents, Having, Countries, Jamaica

I know I create major reactions in people.

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Create, Know, Major, Reactions

I love theatre because of the audience. It feels risky. But I love film because it travels to the whole world. To an audience I don't see.

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Love, Audience, Feels, Risky

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

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Will, How, TV, Reservations

I live in New York. I go to dance class; I do theatre. When things are sent to me, if I like them, I push to do them. And I would absolutely love to do anything that's part of my dad's homeland.

- Sarita Choudhury

Love, Homeland, Dad, Push

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

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Triumph, Alive, Bring, Anguish

Playing Frida was hard and wonderful. I found such a force in her, bigger than me. I tried to make it just a woman who had to do what she did. A woman who lived, ate, and laughed. I tried to avoid the 'icon' of Frida Khalo.

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Woman, Icon, Had, Frida

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

Movie, Feels, Dad, None

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.

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Aim, Hollywood, Moved, Los Angeles

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

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Own, Same, Same Thing, Open-Minded

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

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Trust, Doing, Director, I Believe In

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.

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Love, Heels, Traits, Real Life

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