Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Padmapriya Janakiraman - Page 2

I am hungry as an actor.

I started dancing at a young age. When I became busy with films and studies, dance took a back seat. Also, it was constricting for someone like me, who is not religious, to do something which is so deified.

I am not a good actor. There is much more to do and learn.

I am basically a theatre artiste. However, after stepping into cinema, I did not get much opportunity to act in plays.

I'm excited to work in Bollywood, but I want to be part of meaningful projects.

In any language, I would like to do my best!

In a crazy, high-pressure environment like a film set, eventually a peculiar kind of empathy develops for your co-workers.

I hate flashy metrosexual men. I prefer a rustic man who will make a long-time companion.

Some years you have more work and some years less. That does not bother me. What matters is the end product.

I am a greedy actor, and it upsets me losing work I have wanted to do, but that is a motivator not a dampener.

Lack of dignity and equal opportunity at workplace for women in cinema is a truth that needs role reversal.

I felt I should get back to stage performances because I really enjoy them.

Changing age old patriarchal mindsets is a difficult long process and involves constant communication and dialogue.

I don't believe in cutting down or increasing the number of films I do.

It has been a fairy tale for an outsider, bouncing from one film set to another, choosing my films as assertively as those films chose me. And through this journey I have not once faced the dreaded syndrome of the 'casting couch.'

Usually people are apprehensive about facing the camera for the first time. But for me, it was the most natural thing.

The Weinstein story and the way it has shaken the roots of Hollywood has made apparent the fact that, across the world, there is a pressing need to recognize and correct the circumstances women subsist in, in order to move forward.

I am comfortable doing glamorous roles and have no qualms going nude if the character demands it.

Apart from being an actor, I'm an academician. I wanted to pursue something with which I could bring about a change in society.

Yes, I have had more commercial success in Malayalam but that doesn't mean I can't do with more in Tamil.

Hyderabad is home after all. This is where I grew up.

I would like to be part of all kind of cinema and will jump at any opportunity that allows me to experiment as an actor.

All my directors have tried to draw the best out of me at that point of time.

Tamil has given me an experience that's extremely rich from Vishnu's Pattiyal' to Chimbudevan's Irrumbakottai,' to even a small significant role in Ram's Thangameengal.'

The Hegelian dynamic plays out daily on and off the film sets - women are not lesser beings, but because they are assumed to be, they are subjected to inferior conditions. And this inferiority projects itself through the feeling of weakness and subjugation.

The only philosophy that I'm not confused about in life is love.

In spite of its relatively nascent rise in popularity, tea joints across the country are romanticized, quite like beer pubs in the West.

I have acted in 20 films in various languages and won 13 awards for my acting skills.

It's a misconception that an intelligent person can't act and I want people to discard such notions.

I always celebrated my birthdays with my parents. There is no question of not being with them on that day.

I am not against the idea of looking sexy. But I don't like women being looked at as mere objects of sex.

Cinema is a male-dominated bastion and one has to be patient.

I have been part of films like Rajamanikyam' and Seniors,' which had genuine comedy and I am comfortable with the genre.

I'm an army kid with floating feet.

Malayalam actress Ann Augustine, director V K Prakash, writer Jayaprakah Kulur and I have planned to produce quality dramas and to take it to a wide range of audience. We are making some popular works into stage plays.

I am not revolutionary or experimental, but I am curious and love to explore and indulge in life.

I've never been linked to a co-star or director, never had drunken stupors or been disrespectful of a producer's position. I don't have parents intruding in filmmaking affairs and so on. I'm a professional and like to look at myself that way.

Anger, pain and a tinge of joy are the recursive emotions I have been waking up to ever since I read reports on how Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed women in Hollywood for years. Some of these women are actors I have been longing to co-star with even if they reside in another part of the globe.

I had a smooth take-off in Malayalam, I would like to explore more and take up films that are different in Tamil.

I am a director's actor. It is a director's medium, definitely. That doesn't mean I stop using my head.