Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Riya Sen

Other actors have come up and told me that I don't take my work seriously. How am I not taking it seriously? Ask the directors who I've worked with and they'll tell you how serious I am.

I like the fact that I come with a lineage and have a filmi background.

Well, Kolkata is home but I have got used to living in Mumbai too.

In Bengali films, I played my version of glamorous, where I played a wide-ranging characters.

When I look at my earlier work, I often wonder why I acted like that, why I wore that dress, why I said that dialogue... Why couldn't I do it better? I realized I was too young then and not confident.

No wonder they call shopping 'retail therapy,' as any girl will tell you how it just takes away all the stress.

My name is always just added into any controversy without clarifying with me first.

Oh, Raima and I gel very well on screen. Our natural sibling camaraderie is evident once the cameras started rolling.

I don't know where this glamorous image and all came from. I don't find myself glamorous or bold.

I love ghosts. I've actually seen a couple of spirits in my life and almost every single night, till today, I try and watch a scary film.

I am very fond of chocolates.

My idea of a Benarasi sari was those heavy ones that are pretty cumbersome to wear.

I have been in Bombay for the last 18 years; I have been on my own. I have travelled wherever I've wanted to.

I am always excited when the script or the character has something different to offer.

I enjoy wearing a saree more than a mini skirt and maybe that has come off as bad acting in some of my films, because I didn't fit in there.

It wasn't me. I couldn't go on set every day, get my hair curled for hours and sit with all that make-up. It just didn't do it for me. I took a conscious decision to stop working in Bollywood movies at that time.

I have always taken my own decisions.

I am on social media pretty often.

So my first role was when I was five years old. I had one scene with my mom in a Bengali film called 'Gajamukta.' After that, I thought I'd become Madhuri Dixit.

Actually, once you have a lot of work at hand in Mumbai, there's little free time to spend alone.

My sister Raima, who is just a year older and my best friend too, is also an actress.

Digital content is getting very popular especially with the youth in India, hence short films are a great opportunity to tell different kinds of stories for the young audiences.

I hate matching stuff.

'Shaadi No. 1' with David Dhawan didn't turn out to be the best, but it was a blast to work on.

I have never tied my hair in a bun and I rarely wear a bindi.

I was open to taking risks and learning from my mistakes.

I don't mind any role as long as I get to work with good directors.

Everyone wants to be glamorous, no doubt, but I was so young when I came here. I was doing all these roles, wearing a mini skirt, running around and acting 'cute.' When I'd watch myself on screen I'd be like 'eeks, I can't believe that's me.'

Even when I went out, people had this perception that 'Oh Riya Sen' because they feel what you're on screen, you're the same in real life.

Marriage doesn't guarantee anything, it doesn't come with perfect settings.

I was in Calcutta and my parents had an offer for me to feature in Falguni Pathak's music video, produced by Universal Music. I was in Class 9 then, and pleaded to decline the offer because I was too shy. My parents explained that it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I was in tears because I was too shy and conscious in front of the camera.

I feel the word 'privacy' is under threat, majorly. We are forgetting that a celebrity is also a human being.

I am not 'fashionable.' I am particular about what I wear.

Shivam might not be as shy or as moody as me but he has a wanderlust as well. We both yearn to constantly travel.

A woman cannot change a man just because she loves him. A man will change himself if he loves his woman.

Unlike any other star kid, I didn't have any A-grade launch. I just did whatever came my way.

I have no problem in confessing that I drink alcohol but I always take it in a very limited manner.

Chocolates tempt me a lot and I love binging on them. Sometime back, I had hogged so many of them that I had to go to Bangkok for treatment.

Among the actors, I think my name has been misused the maximum number of times in the industry.

I don't drink everywhere, as I am not a hard drinker. I also prefer not to drink in those parties where there is a huge gathering of people. For me, drinking is private.

Every time my sister and I went on the set with my mother, everyone would be like, 'Oh my god, she's going to become a star.' So in my head, I always thought I was going to be an actress, but not so soon.

Marriage largely entails love, respect, honesty, understanding and trust between two people, which only you can create for yourself to make it last.

I didn't learn acting. I was still in school/college, shooting and then going back to studies.

I am very fussy about my clothes and very moody as well.

I love indulging myself once in a while with a good aroma or Thai body massage followed by sauna and jacuzzi.

I hardly own a sari.

I tapped into my potential in Bengali films, which I don't think directors in Bollywood were able to understand.

People who are my superfans will come to my app. Not everyone is going to come to the app. The superfans who come to my app will see the real me in a very different mode. That is the speciality of the app.

If the offers are good, I am open to do movies in any language.

I realized some of the films I did, after a few hits that I had, they weren't working for me because I wasn't comfortable in the roles I was playing. That's why probably people thought I was a bad actress and I don't blame them.

I was controversy's favorite wild child.

My parents have been very broad-minded and let us do what we wanted.

People think that just because I live in Mumbai, I'm not interested in Bengali films. But I want to act more in Tollywood because roles here are meatier.

I want to have the kind of marriage that will last forever. The kind of marriage that will make my kids want to get married.

Before social media actually came into play, there were only journalists, who would represent you. If I went to a party, I was written about negatively or sometimes in a positive way as well but it never was the actual thing.

I am lucky that my in-laws are incredibly special people and I love them dearly. My father-in-law is an extraordinary man and my mom-in-law a beautiful and brave woman.

I do miss home, especially my parents, but my work keeps me occupied most of the time.

If I wore a mini-skirt then it would become such a big deal, if I kissed on-screen then it was bold, it was glamorous but if the top actresses did it then no one would even discuss it. So I was like why do I have this sexy, wild and glamorous image?

'Jhankaar Beats' is a great movie with fabulous music. But when I see myself in it as an actor, I feel so tiny and young.

I always wanted to do a web series where I play a negative character, or someone who's a druggie, or a spoilt child.