Top 97 Quotes & Sayings by Suhasini Maniratnam
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Indian actress Suhasini Maniratnam.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
When I am at home, I am there and when I'm shooting or doing any other thing, I concentrate on that.
Every language will have different nuances. But language cannot be the basis for discrimination or exclusion.
Though the first day of college was scary, I gradually adjusted to the environment and started enjoying myself with friends, lecturers, sports, and college day functions.
Most people don't even know that I have another side to me. They only know me as an actor. But I keep doing different kinds of things.
For people to understand, you can't speak 'cinema.' Cinema doesn't have alphabets, so you have to go to the local language. Even in England, if they make a movie in London they have to make it in the Cockney accent, they can't make a film with the English spoken in the BBC. So cinema has to be realistic to the area that it is set in.
Those who respect the intelligence of the common man have always been masters.
Actors should be writers. While a writer puts the story on paper, an actor puts it on screen.
College education teaches you humility.
Women should be able to come out and narrate stories from their point of view.
My husband won't remake films and won't allow anyone to remake his films. It's like making your child study like your neighbour's child.
I don't get bored of life. I always find things that excite me.
In Queen Mary's, which was an all-girls' college, I learned discipline, hard work and to be competitive. But at Madras Film Institute, I learned about the world, being free and knowledgeable, and thinking beyond oneself.
I am a humble speaker, I speak very well.
We south Indians are clannish and comfortable about our languages.
We women want to take the easy way out. I appreciate men because they take risks.
Cinema by itself is a language.
I don't think too seriously about anything, neither does my husband and my son. When we are home, we are constantly laughing over some trivial matters.
After 40, women forget they are women. There's a certain liberation and we get to know ourselves.
There are about 250 curators in the world who keep their eyes open to choose films from around the globe for festivals. I am one of them.
When I see poverty around, it churns my heart.
Hasn't everyone written a leave letter while at school? Or sent a text message? There is a writer in all of us.
After 40, every day is a bonus. We should know how to live our lives to the fullest.
'Hasini Pesum Padam' was about reviewing Tamil movies that released every week. I felt it is more of an international platform and hence used trendy trousers and different kinds of tops.
Men directors somehow think it's great to show heroes all unkempt and ungroomed. You'd be able to smell the hero's aftershave lotion if a woman directed him.
When my son Nandan was in middle school, I had a fun way of doing his maths homework. I bought another set of mathematics books and both of us would sit side by side and start solving problems.
I took up special yoga and a diet from Sreenath Vishnu. And amazingly, I lost 5.5 kgs in 20 days and my husband Mani shed six kilos in a month.
There are few teachers from the film industry to guide newcomers. One can see a gap between the film industry and those teaching at film schools.
My love is music... I do not give too much importance to love and romance.
My parents and their well-being comes before my work.
Unless we get out of these mindless comedies and a good-for-nothing fellow trying to win over the heroine kind of films, Tamil cinema will not be taken seriously.
The more women grow economically, there will be more allegations against them. If they don't grow, if they are quiet, nobody is going to find fault with them.
I think if an actor is not able to pronounce their own dialogues, no matter what language, you are not an actor.
Yes, my uncle wanted me to be a cinematographer and he was disappointed when I gave up that dream to become an actress.
I don't really like event managing - I don't even manage my house.
The economic freedom has come to a lot of us who are lucky, but many women are still beaten up by husbands, even when they are breadwinners.
In a film festival, people come to watch because they are interested in cinema. It's not like watching a premiere show or being in any cinema hall, where you are not with like-minded people.
I don't believe in multitasking. I rather believe in doing one thing at a time.
I don't think women are being sidelined or ignored. If they are talented enough, they will get films. But they need to be more ambitious.
The stories are being written by men, and it's men who are directing it. As long as that continues, you won't be seeing much change in the way women are portrayed in cinema.
I was born in a part of Tamil Nadu notorious for eliminating the girl child. I was the third daughter born to my parents and I have my mother to thank for deciding that I was not an unwanted child.
Kannada was easy for me to learn because it's casual and easy; no frills, unlike Tamil.
The Indian film industry has a condescending attitude towards its fans without actually intending to. They want to explain everything, leaving very little to the filmgoers' imagination.
I love the food of Karnataka and all the side dishes I make at home are recipes I learnt here.
I would like to give one message: Live life light with a smile.
I have a long time association with Prince jewellery and the only piece of jewellery I wore for my wedding was designed by them.
Not many people know that I turned down my husband's first directorial, the Kannada film 'Pallavi Anupallavi,' something he still hasn't forgiven me for.
I do things normal event managers cannot do, thanks to my years in the film industry.
Films are a fantastic medium and the huge impact they have cannot be denied.
Bengalureans have a heart of gold.
I hate myself seconds after I've gotten angry but it's too late by then. I start defending my actions after that. It's shameful.
You need to understand the meaning of the dialogue to be able to convey it right. You need to know it to understand the nuances of the scene.
Throughout school I studied in Tamil medium schools but it was only when I got to college that I realized that not learning English was a great disadvantage as I didn't understand even the simplest of sentences.
An actor is a thinking person.
In fact my first film ran for about 400 days. It all depends on hype, marketing and publicity, which are actually more expensive than the actual film.
All art cinema is not great; some of the films can put you to sleep.
I don't believe in God, in prayer, in going to temples begging God to give me and my family happiness. I am not asking everyone to be an atheist, but good thoughts are not spent in a temple.
It is difficult to accept failure when you are a student. It is also difficult to succeed because everyone is so competitive!
Raja Ravi Varma was one of the few Indians who not only understood women but also represented them exquisitely in a single dimension within four frames, infusing each painting with life through the use of color.
Technology has definitely changed a lot, and it has made the medium of cinema very accessible for aspirants.
Though I read and speak Malayalam, Malayalis won't accept outsiders speaking their language.
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