Quotes from Parvathy

As an actor, my body is my tool to flesh out the roles I play.

I will keep repeating it until people get it - misogyny and violence and everything that's bad in our life and society should be reflected in our films. It's the glorification that is wrong.

My humble request to journalists - It only takes one phone call or an email to check facts.

I reserve the right to be a participating citizen and artist.

No matter how big or new they are, I always look for the intention of the filmmaker first. Their intention has to be in the right place.

There is absolutely no wrong way to find love.

The 'Qarib' team was energetic with an intimate way of working.

I don't feel genres have helped me as an actor. Movies can be of any genre. But if you give me slapstick, I may not do it.

I remember I was in my ninth grade, and I was smitten by Sushmita Sen, the way she carried herself, her interviews, and, of course, her movies.

Acting is very anthropological for me. It makes me less judgmental.

I play Sophie in 'Koode': a very strong and soft woman who has been through many atrocities yet holds herself together through conviction in herself.

Working with any senior actor is a learning experience, so getting to work with a thespian like Kamal Hassan was a memorable one.

I would want the audience to simply see the character I portray in each movie in its true essence because I feel acting is all about truthfully portraying the character.

We only fear what we don't understand, and I hate to be scared.

Unfairness is everywhere.

I discovered that there was no difference between playing a real-life character and a fictional one.

The only kind of influence I want to be on anyone is by being, constantly and consistently, someone who probes herself at every juncture, improves the way in which she functions as a citizen, and questions the status quo.

I think cyberbullying someone who states their opinion, especially a woman, is sadly a norm these days, and it happens daily to not just stars/actors. We have to consistently condemn and shun it so that it never gets the power it doesn't deserve to have over the society.

The commercial success that came with Anjali Menon's 'Bangalore Days' helped me in getting my work noticed.

Women haven't stood together enough because women have been pitted against one another.

We need storytelling from all angles. We need men, women, and trans people participating in all aspects of filmmaking; this is the only way we can depolarise the age-old standard of singular perspective.

I don't know what I want, but I do know that I don't want the usual stuff, the cliched stuff is just too mind-numbing. They sell, I know, but it makes me sad to know that.

My career strategy has never been the most important thing; my conscience is.

We need women in cinema to know first that they have a safe space to open up about their struggles without being judged and marginalised.