Quotes from Sharmila Tagore

Human relationships can get awfully demanding and unpredictable. One day you feel one way, the next day you feel something else. That affects relationships. It's better to spend time with yourself doing the things that you enjoy.

Parents should be told that if they invest in the education and upbringing of a girl child, she will also make contributions for the family and society.

Obviously you do not want to upstage. Some people work like that. But I have never been that upstaging kind. I wouldn't want to upset anyone.

We are a layered society, so what may be taken easily by an urban audience may not go down well with those watching the same film in suburban areas.

My first mother's role was in 'Aradhana.' But after that in mid to late 1980s, I was being offered more roles of mothers.

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

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

I studied music at Dakhhini.

I get attracted to projects because of the script or the idea and the basic character.

I would have loved to do a film like 'Piku' or 'Neerja.' But I never got a role where a woman played an authoritative role. In my time, the hero and the villain were both men. The heroine was only the victim.