Top 97 Quotes & Sayings by Suhasini Maniratnam - Page 2

I will reunite with Ananth Nag onscreen after a while for a cameo in Vijayalakshmi Singh's 'Yaanaa,' which sees her launching her daughters.

People who are close me know I have a funny side.

I prefer to work behind the camera.

Direction gives me happiness and acting gives me peace.

I have a great sense of humour. I am teasing, taunting and authoritative.

When there is growth economically and in industry, I think there should be growth in information also.

Often our onscreen personas are different from who we are. Actors like Kamal Haasan, who is such a genius, has never played a role close to what he is in real life.

I have been acting for more than 25 years and have worked in all the four Southern languages. But it is in the Kannada films that I got huge recognition and variety of roles.

The business of looking good is very difficult. This has often made me consider retirement from films.

In 1983, when I did 'Sindhu Bhairavi' and played the other woman, many men came up to me and said it opened up a lot to them. The film showed that a man and woman could have an intellectual and artistic relationship.

I stay in Chennai but my heart is beating for Kannada films.

In the digital world, we have forgotten the meaning of 'persistence of vision'. Art is something we have to hold on to.

On the first day of my shoot for 'School Master,' I was feeling a little uneasy because I had to travel a lot. I was feeling a little sleepy too. After the completion of each shot, I would go for a small nap.

I only like non-fiction. After 30 pages of fiction, I think: what nonsense are they trying to write.

I have been hooked to cinema since childhood. I am like a typical Indian villager who had no other source of entertainment while growing up.

When I'm acting, I'm a woman but when I am directing, I am an animal because I am very demanding.

We know of instances of stage plays being made into films. But I really think that all Tamil films can be staged; I'd like to take up K. Balachander's films and do that.

I got a Best Actress award from the Kerala government when I was 24, and I got another one when I was 42. I was more thrilled when I got it for the second time.

In Chennai, I do film reviews for a local channel. Every second movie I review is by a debutant. There is so much passion and freshness in those films; that makes them special.

I have got lot of appreciation for my performances in many Kannada films. In fact, I got the best roles of my career in Kannada films.

I am not into the mother sentiment, really. My heart is not into this ideal mother role; it does not work for me.

How can anyone say no to be a part in a film like 'Ramanujan?'

I was 13 or 14 when I was brought from Paramakudi to Chennai by my uncle Kamal Haasan, and I lived under the care of my uncle and my grandparents.

I think as film actors we are comfortable on stage because we know what the audience expects. The only tricky part is to remember the lines and that body language is key, which is something we tend to forget after years of acting in front of a camera.

I have seen a lot of people who are affected by HIV. When I see that there is industrial growth on one side but there is not awareness on the other side, it breaks my heart.

I'm very happy that Kathryn Bigelow has become the first woman in the 82-year history of the Oscars to earn Hollywood's top prize for filmmakers.

I stopped seeing mainstream films 15 years ago. They are absolutely unbearable.

Chennai has amazing talent, but in terms of organization... not so much.

I come from a family with many dancers, my aunts learnt dance, so did Kamal Haasan and, as a child I learnt it, too.

Just like only qualified people should work in films, only qualified people should review the film.

Mani laughs every time he hears someone ask me, 'Don't you miss acting?' Because he sees me with make-up on every morning and leaving for the studios.

Vittorio De Sica's 'Bicycle Thieves' changed my very idea of cinema.

If you are making a film for the first time, you have all the problems and fears. Yet, you have the freedom that you will never get in life.

For me, going to the gym for an hour is important not because I appear on screen, but because I am healthy.

I wish more women would come into films and give it the respectability it deserves.

With summer in Chennai, I am struggling with my long hair. I do my own hair-dos which are comfortable.

Anant Nag and Vishuvardhan sir are two of the best actors with whom I have worked.