Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Padmapriya Janakiraman

My parents live in Hyderabad and I visit the city often.

I don't do movies for the awards. The awards are made for the films. The films are not made for the awards.

I've always been a part of theatre.

Actually, I am a typical middle-class girl.

No one can insist me to wear skimpy costumes and to act in steamy scenes just for the sake of pulling more audience to cinema halls.

See, modern dance forms have a pull because the youngsters can relate to it, but it makes me happy to say that in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, people still relate to classical art forms.

However vain our entire political class or organizations are, in the name of cynicism we cannot bend towards authoritarian populism.

If I am offered a character that demands me to go bald, I would definitely give it a thought. I love my hair, but if the script is that brilliant I would take up such roles.

I would love to do Malayalam films.

I am extremely choosy about my roles as I want variety; I would like to work with the best of people.

I love food and love cooking.

Malayalam films just fell into my lap.

I want to be the Guru Dutt of the world.

If I am destined to do more Telugu films, I will.

When the women in any other film industry are almost equal to men, in Malayalam only one or two women are among the crew.

Item numbers are a different ball game altogether. I feel no one in Mollywood has the guts or skill to film an item song, without making it look vulgar, as Amal Neerad can.

Three months after reaching the U.S., hurricane Sandy struck, and I had to spend four days in the university shelter. Though I have worked for projects on environment displacement in the past, it was the first time that I actually experienced one and understood how attached one can be to your regular shelter.

As an artiste, you get a high when you are given roles that are challenging.

I just cannot fathom the criteria and the eligibility for awards as there is an ocean of difference between the state and national awards.

I'm greedy for good films, and will test waters in new territories as long as I get to satiate that greed.

Our lives are better when we make the right choices through a heightened awareness of the world around us.

The starting point of social movements stems from deep pain and intolerance towards loss already incurred and hence any gain including just voicing the injustice empowers the movement and everybody else around them.

If I had my way, I would have started my career with Hindi films.

I do want to get into the government and work for finance management divisions and policy management, but they are all long-term dreams and I don't know when I'll decide to go for it.

Getting a Masters in Public Administration was nothing unusual for me. I have always been a person to hold on to my other interests along with my acting career.

WCC is not an arbitrator, it's a collection of people who represent and protect the interest of women in cinema. We are an organisation that facilitates solutions for a just work space and don't see ourselves as arbitrators of justice.

I sign films that have significance for my characters or are big entertainers.

All I want is to be a part of good projects and be remembered for that.

I am not a person who wants to be in the limelight all the time.

Shwetha Menon is my good friend and I have nothing against her. But, the Kerala State Award for the Best Actress has been given to her for Paleri Manickam' in which somebody else dubbed for her. I received only the second best actress award for my performance in Pazhassi Raja,' where I have dubbed in my own voice.

In director V K Prakash's 'Poppins,' I'll reprise the same role I did in its Kannada version.

Nowhere in the world will you find a cowboy speaking in Tamil.

My entry into films was forced, and I always had an affinity towards academics. Having said that, it is the artiste within that urged me to say yes to acting.

When you have a meaty character to play opposite an actor you like, it becomes a memorable experience.

When you see the phase of 60s and 70s, the craze for Dev Anand and actors of that era, it still exists in south. The craze is huge but that's also for stars like Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan and Mohanlal, especially for male stars.

'Striker' is a story of the human spirit triumphing over all odds.

Language is not a barrier, specially Hindi. It is the only language I read, write and speak in and so it is far easier than South Indian languages.

I have not tried enough to be in Bollywood.

The reason why I returned to dance is simply because I love dance. I had also promised myself that I wanted to make more sense of dance, study and understand it far more in detail.

I have always been a pan-Indian actress with pan-Indian taste.

To create a new resume of films and expressions is the only focal point for 2014 for me.

If the character you play on screen has to have life, you should dub in your own voice.

I was supposed to do Beautiful,' and when I watched the movie, I knew that I had missed out on a great opportunity.

The state of Kerala and Malayalam film industry has been like a home to me ever since I started my career as an actress.

In every film, I sport a different look for each character. It's almost as if my features change to accommodate the characters.

When you live with a character in your mind, after a while you start to behave like them, act like them and connect with them. That is how acting happens for me.

There is a certain fictional element that goes in playing a common person.

As an actor, I just made the most of the opportunities that came my way and I owe it to my directors for having given me characters with substance, as I have never gone around asking for a role.

Kerala audience is different because their expectations are very high.

It's not only the story and the script that matter to me but also the people whom I work with.

I think classical dance is not seeing the evolution seen by classical music.

I want to leave a deep impact of my acting in people's mind.

I believe the #Metoo movement is here to stay.

I started learning dancing when I was three years old, and I started modelling when I was eleven years old.

Professionally, I haven't done any film in 2013 as I was studying in NYU.

It wasn't because of Striker's bad performance that I didn't sign any film in Bollywood. There wasn't much to do in Bollywood, and the offers weren't great too.

I was part of the Bollywood film 'Strikers,' which I would call a niche film.

I am super lucky to have a resume which has all kinds of filmmakers and films and hence experiences as a person and actress for me.

I am never disappointed in life in not getting any awards: it is the movies which keep me going, not the awards.

As an actress I am totally open to offers as an individual and want to treat every opportunity with same spirit.