Quotes from Tisca Chopra

I believe I owe it to my body to keep it supple and fit.

I thought a book demystifying menstruation and talking about the simple biology of it would go a long way in making young impressionable girls surer of their bodies.

I am planning to start my own production house and am keen on exploring some new ideas.

The pandemic hastened the dominance of the web as the chief agent of entertainment. Big experience films will of course stay on as the friends and family outing mainstay. But viewing has already shifted to personal screens where the choice of time and content stays with the individual.

For me, script is the key and it has to be potent, and powerful.

The casting couch exists in every business where there is power dynamics and manipulation.

I weigh myself every single day, and that helps me get back on course if I gain even a little bit.

Television is a different medium and I am happy I could reach out to different kinds of audiences.

My father, Subhash Chandra Arora, was the Principal at the ABJ School, and my mother was the headmistress.

I was in the final year of my English Literature degree at Hindu College, Delhi University, when I came to Mumbai. I liked the city and the sense of freedom - here, I wasnt a principals daughter anymore.

My movies had flopped but discovering theatre was perhaps the biggest things that happened to me at 22.

Happiness comes from different things. The kind of exposure and reach you get from a film, it makes you happy. Any film that you do has a lot of reach.

I started doing theatre with Satyadev Dubey at Prithvi and I had to start from scratch. I had fallen in love with the craft of acting by then.

People are used to seeing me in make-up and blow-dried hair but after a point I felt like pushing myself. As an actor, I try to inhabit the character. It is the way to tell people about your skills through your looks.

As women write, produce and direct more content, the gaze with which stories are told will also become sensible. Female actors will make their own content, if no one else will do it for them.

I havent been overweight, just a well-built North Indian body type but while no one was telling me to lose weight, I was constantly pushing myself hard to be thinner.

Television is instant gratification. We do an episode and we instantly get a reaction for the same. Theatre on the other hand is very satisfying as an actor. It is purely a few thousand people who come to watch the theatre.

I am entirely against censorship. It goes against my basic grain - a mature society need not be told what to do.

In the middle of pandemic, who can match the energy of a child at home? I am so blessed to have wonderful people around me who help me out with stuff when I am not around.

My family was progressive yet traditional in their beliefs. There was pressure on me to perform well academically. I topped my university. But I was a rebel with a cause.

I didnt and I dont have any hesitation in playing mother on screen. If given a chance, I can even play a father.

The mid-90s were really not the high point of fashion for anybody - I had a fashion disaster when I wore heavily sequined clothes which cut my armpits and I bled during the filming of my first movie!

Before Covid, the first victim of my busy schedule used to be my workout. Then, luckily, the lockdown gave me more than enough time to start a vigorous regime. I had all the time in the world to build lean muscle without going the route of fat burners or unhealthy supplements.

I have done a workshop with Nasseruddin Shah and will continuing doing it whenever I am free.