Quotes from Supriya Pathak

I am itching to play every character.

I wanted to give the best to my kids. Thankfully, my husband has done tremendously well for us and I was never stressed to continue working at the cost of neglecting them.

When TV came, it was a very strong medium. It reached out to so many people and it could have made difference but we got into mundaneness of it.

When I started, my mother was already an actress and I wasn't keen on being one.

When TV came, it was a great medium and then daily soaps came in and ruined the quality of the work we were doing.

Every time I get a role of a mother, I try to find a different area, person or milieu where I can put the mother That's always exciting.

I really miss playing Hansa. I just love her.

I feel that cinema, if made entertainingly with a certain meaning, reaches out to a lot more people. It makes them aware of issues or things that help people to understand what's around them.

My father Baldev Pathak was a Punjabi, and mother, Dina Pathak, a Kathiawadi Gujarati.

I am very happy as a mother-in-law. I have a lovely daughter-in-law.

It is a dream come true to be working with Mr. Bachchan again. I played his sister in 'Shahenshah,' but then I had many questions unanswered as an actress.

It is great that the industry is open to accepting character roles and moving away from the cliched Bollywood Hindi masala films.

Everyone is making the same kind of shows, about underworld and things like that. So I am hoping somebody breaks this trend, else we will again enter the same grind.

TV is a medium that can be used to spread a positive message but people are spreading bogus ideas in people's minds.

In fact I watch Netflix these days for something light.

There was no pressure of working with names like Shashi Kapoor, Rekha, Amrish Puri and A.K. Hangal because I was familiar with all of them, courtesy my mother.

The work pressure in a daily is much. There is no time to etch out characters.

The shows being made nowadays are very similar, very regressive. We are talking about the type of '60s, '70s kind of films, and similar stories are being shown on TV today. Only rehashed and glossy. It does not interest me.

Cinema might have it's share of ups and downs, it can't go. It is a very major part of everybody's life. It is a process like going to cinema halls, watching films on the big screen.

People tell me Especially while we are stressed out, we watch just one episode of 'Kichdi' and immediately feel de-stressed.'

What is more important today for the audience is to have different kinds of content. They like variety, they like different kinds of stories, different kinds of entertainment.

I was keen to become a dancer and was studying for it. Somehow, it did not work out and I joined theatre. I do not regret it.

I wasn't ambitious though I loved acting.

I want to be able to give ample time to my children and my home.