I don't disown feminism, but I don't believe in such labels.
— Tabu
I don't find a reason to be on Twitter or Facebook. This is my temperament, and I can't put myself out 24/7 out there. However, I am not judgmental about others being there.
You cannot analyse your personality. It is like trying to understand the essential characteristics of a person.
I could never understand the herd mentality. I have always fought to do things my way and have stuck to that.
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 have any special approach for playing dark characters. That's because I never looked at them as dark characters per se. For me, they were real people.
If I am comfortable doing work in a certain way, then I will do it my way with conviction.
Frankly, my head can never be bloated.
I only do work that suits my temperament.
I should be satisfied first as an actor with my work. I will not do something because everyone is doing it.
I can't do back-to-back films.
I am not closed to any new ideas. But films are my first love.
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 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 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 love to watch people dance. It is the most fantastic skill and art form that anybody can have.
I really miss doing masala films.
Most stabilizing part of my career is that I have done all genres. I hate classification.
I know people will only come to me with good roles.
I always maintain that the film industry and film people across the globe are more or less the same.
I didn't have a set of rules, dos, and don'ts or a reference point on how I would navigate my career. I never planned to be in a certain place in the industry. I was walking my path and doing things my way.
I don't think of people as out-and-out black or white.
Every character, before they are heroes or villains, they are human beings.
I want to act, perform in my own way.
Cinema will always remember 'Life Of Pi.'
I enjoy my work. And there are no two ways to that.
I never felt the need to be in the rat race.
I've always gone with the flow.
Coming from a middle-class family in Hyderabad, I was an introvert. I chose to be the way I am.
I had attraction to work with Ang Lee. I wanted to work with him.
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.
Personally, as an artiste, I never do any discrimination. If I am offered a 'Golmaal 4,' I'll run and do it.
I wanted to be an air hostess because I wanted to see the world.
I had a great time doing Bollywood and Telugu films, and it's been an interesting journey.
I never want to stick to one genre of movies and was opened to do everything.
There is always something that you will take away from each project. There definitely has to be something that you have said yes to in the first place. In some projects, it's the freedom to express yourself more; in some, it's a bigger sense of camaraderie, and somewhere, it's the money that is great.
I never planned to be an actress.
I have never done films to prove a point to anyone; I have done them for myself.
For me, every character takes the same amount of immersion.
I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from others. I did not think it was necessary to do things the way others are doing it.
I did not want to do things the way they are usually done in Hindi cinema.
I cannot say yes to too many things. I am better off giving attention to one thing at a time.
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.
I have such a temperament that I cannot do anything in excess.
I've crossed many cultural and gender barriers as a woman.
I am happy and content with my work and career.
My relationship with every film is more or less the same, but the experience is the difference. It comes with the people I am working with, the character I play.
What has helped me is my success in commercial cinema. It has given me a platform for others to cast me in their films. If I did not have the commercial success, then I wouldn't be able to do the smaller films.
If I am doing a certain kind of cinema, that does not mean I hate the other kind.
As far as TV shows are concerned, I would love to do a travel show.
