Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Sameera Reddy

I was a glamorous actress in Mumbai. I had done Sanjay Gupta's 'Musafir.' I wanted to know how Buddhada thought of me in the role of Supriya, Rahul Bose's unhappy wife in 'Kaalpurush.' It needs a visionary film-maker to see an actor in a role that seems very removed from her real personality or on-screen image.

I appeared in Pankaj Udhas' 'Ahista' video purely on instinct. I had turned down everything that had come my way till then. After I heard the storyline and the fact that were shooting in Sydney, I agreed. When the song went on air, I was still in Sydney.

I have come a long way from the days of 'Vaaranam Aayiram.'

There are a lot of women I look up to.

The shooting of 'Nadunisai Naigal' started at 7 in the evening and ended by 4 in the morning. Physically too, it was a very demanding film as I have a lot of action scenes. I had to run, roll in the mud and was chased by dogs. It was not an easy film to shoot.

If men find my legs sexy, wonderful.

Buddhada was a man of few words. You can see the importance of silence in his cinema. There are long stretches of no dialogue in his films.

I love the half sari. It's very, very feminine and at the same time, has the look of a sari.

I love to keep fit, so I swim everyday and hit the gym for an hour daily.

What's the harm to be in the media glare if you have nothing to hide?

You can't brand an artiste and take away the fact that he or she wants to do something genuinely different.

At the end of the day, I am a Kathak dancer!

Akshai has his own range of mo'bikes. That's how we met.

Apart from studies and playtime, I involve my son in house cleaning and other chores.

In Bollywood, better the body you have, the brighter are your chances of bagging roles.

I am not a night person.

Akshai is well-known in his own field but not part of showbiz. I think that was very important for me. I wanted to marry outside the film industry.

I won't fool anybody by saying, 'Oh! I'm a private person.' I love people, flashbulbs and the paparazzi.

You have to go through a point where you actually hate yourself because when you come to this point of hating yourself so much and break into pieces, you can put yourself back together in the most beautiful way possible.

I have enjoyed the films directed by Prabhu Deva and simply love his choreography. And he is the best dancer India has. I feel he knows what the audience wants, and that is why the films he has directed are hits.

Buddhada affirmed my faith in myself. For that, I will be always grateful.

Social media is not a platform where you can please everybody.

When I joined I was young and silly and made some very stupid decisions, being oblivious to the magnitude of the consequences. I did go a little crazy after Musafir. There was plenty of money and adulation and I would see guys going crazy for me. The songs were a big hit and it was like living the life one only dreams of.

When you are a queen in your own country, why would you want to go anywhere else?

The south has really been very kind to me. I represent each state with their industry, right from Sandalwood to Tollywood. Working with top stars like Chiranjeevi, Surya, Mohanlal is a brilliant experience.

I had placenta previa, which had me on bed rest for almost four to five months after the pregnancy. I just started putting on weight and falling into some kind of place in my head because it went from shows, award functions and a glamorous lifestyle to just not being able to handle what pregnancy was doing to me.

One doesn't gossip with a genius.

Working with Gautham Menon is like working with a friend. He says the scene once and I do it once and he okays it. He is very quick.

With Priyadarshan, he is extremely strict but lets me do what I want. You have that kind of freedom as an artiste.

When I got on to social media and I started to show my belly, my stretch marks, my grey hair and my age, a lot of people unfollowed me and asked why are you doing this. And I am happy they did that, as I wanted the right crowd. It is very important to choose your tribe and finally, the tribe has chosen me. I am grateful for it.

I eat my dinner early and go to bed by 11 P.M.

I remember going to a bookstore in Chennai and getting recognised as the 'Ahista' girl. The good thing about the video was the director let me do just what I wanted. And my costar in the video was really sweet. I think it came across well because I portrayed emotions just the way I would in real life. I was just being myself.

My mother-in-law and I have really worked on our relationship. It did not happen out of the blue. What works for us is that both of us are very strong women, we walk the line and come to a meeting point. We do not necessarily agree on everything but the one thing we agree on is the fact that we love each other and our intentions are right.

I took a two month break after 'Maine Dil Tujhko Diya.'

The ability to play different people, grasp at what is running in their head and be somebody completely different from who I am, is fascinating.

I had to constantly try and fit in it and it really exhausted and tired me. I don't regret it because that was my learning to learn to come to this point of loving myself unconditionally.

It's been an ultimate pleasure to work with Buddhada.

An actor is an actor. There should be no labelling - mainstream actor, art film actor, serious actor, comic actor.

I never really socialised and I know that helps a lot in getting films. But it's fine. It's the nature of the business.

It's important to me that I need to know what my character is about.

I was told I was too dark, too tall, too broad. I didn't fit into that girl next door look.

We have been fed such unreal standards of beauty that we have now become victims and part of this process that one cannot break.

The perfect body and the perfect face that I worked on, for my film career, broke apart and I was completely lost.

I am happy being a bombshell, the image has worked for me.

For my wedding, I wanted a minimalist look.

It is cool to know that my films down south are being remade in Bollywood.

An actress projects herself exactly the way she wants to.

My mother does not give up and she never has on anything. I love her zest for life. She has never ever let me accept defeat when it comes to goals that I've had or even if it is just making sure that I never lose my zest for life.

A lot of times, I was about to get a role, but then somebody called. The father or mother would call and a starlet would get it. If somebody is with someone and the heroine is his muse or girlfriend, then she would get the role. All this has happened to me.

With Prabhu Deva, you have to fulfil his exact vision. Till then, he will not be satisfied, because his film has his vision and he will make it only in that way.

An actor had made a comment and said, 'You are so unapproachable.' He called me boring and said, 'You're no fun.' He also said, 'I don't know if I ever want to work with you again.' And I never worked with him after that film.

I love mo'bikes and riding them is my passion.

I've always admired Demi Moore. She has managed to be everyone including, G. I. Jane, which is really, really hot.

I come from a non-filmi background.

I got pregnant in just a couple of months after my marriage. The game plan was to have the pregnancy and bounce back and getting in the limelight again. But I have never experienced anything like that... It was just the opposite.

Baking is fun! I find it very therapeutic, a stress buster.

My comic timing is quite good.

Being locked inside the house plays on a psyche of any child and I believe the most important thing is the mental health of any kid.

Everybody has to start from somewhere. I was also a newcomer once.

I would never party or hang out with the actors post my shoot. I would head back home and rather watch TV.