Quotes from Suhasini Maniratnam

I will reunite with Ananth Nag onscreen after a while for a cameo in Vijayalakshmi Singh's 'Yaanaa,' which sees her launching her daughters.

Often our onscreen personas are different from who we are. Actors like Kamal Haasan, who is such a genius, has never played a role close to what he is in real life.

In 1983, when I did 'Sindhu Bhairavi' and played the other woman, many men came up to me and said it opened up a lot to them. The film showed that a man and woman could have an intellectual and artistic relationship.

I have been acting for more than 25 years and have worked in all the four Southern languages. But it is in the Kannada films that I got huge recognition and variety of roles.

With summer in Chennai, I am struggling with my long hair. I do my own hair-dos which are comfortable.

Throughout school I studied in Tamil medium schools but it was only when I got to college that I realized that not learning English was a great disadvantage as I didn't understand even the simplest of sentences.

Mani laughs every time he hears someone ask me, 'Don't you miss acting?' Because he sees me with make-up on every morning and leaving for the studios.

For me, going to the gym for an hour is important not because I appear on screen, but because I am healthy.

When there is growth economically and in industry, I think there should be growth in information also.

After 40, women forget they are women. There's a certain liberation and we get to know ourselves.

I don't really like event managing - I don't even manage my house.