Quotes from Tabu

I know people will only come to me with good roles.

I think every actor worth his or her salt wants to do good, meaningful cinema.

I should be satisfied first as an actor with my work. I will not do something because everyone is doing it.

There is hunger to have good experiences with people. There will be roles and all of that. But the package of experience has today become important for me. People should be good, established; the filmmaking and acting experience should become heartening.

I came from Hyderabad and didn't know the difference between commercial and parallel cinema.

I grew up in the seventies, and films for us were larger-than-life, masala entertainers.

I don't think of people as out-and-out black or white.

I love to travel. I want to do India by road, the entire length and breadth.

I had attraction to work with Ang Lee. I wanted to work with him.

You cannot analyse your personality. It is like trying to understand the essential characteristics of a person.

Your chemistry with your co-actors is more important in a comedy. You can't leave it to your performance alone. So many things have to fall into place to make people laugh.

All over the world, actors and actresses are chosen for their performing skills. Not how they look or what they wear. It is all about how they act, how they emote.

If I am doing a certain kind of cinema, that does not mean I hate the other kind.

I always wanted to do good work, the best that I was able to, to really discover myself, getting better with each role, and find newer ways to do the same thing.

I never planned to be an actress.

I never saw my career as a journey with a beginning, middle, and end, with high points and low points. It is just a whole, big mass of experience, and I take each experience as it comes. I don't strategise.

If I am comfortable doing work in a certain way, then I will do it my way with conviction.

I come from a generation that had no monitors on the sets. You had to go with the director's conviction and be happy with it. I still work like that.

I don't like to talk about my work. People should see my work and form their opinion based on that, not because of something I said.

'Meenaxi' was a lesson in liberation. It taught me to be a free spirit and understand the pleasure of my work by being different people, just like Meenaxi is.

I don't care if the heroes are short. That's their problem.

There is nothing wrong with commercial cinema if it is made well. In fact, if you ask me, the Hindi film industry has also produced some truly outstanding works over the years.

I am the last person who has any judgement about any kind of cinema, least of all commercial cinema because I am a product of commercial cinema.

I do a film because I would love to be a part of it, but I also think from the audience's perspective. Our profession survives because of our audience.