Top 101 Quotes & Sayings by Amrita Rao
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Indian actress Amrita Rao.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Cinema is a platform open to all kind of views and it is very unrealistic to think that everyone can be happy.
Since my childhood, I was that girl who would walk into a movie hall starry-eyed having this hunch that I will be there and can do this though I did not have the guts to share my feeling with my parents.
The Delhi winter is amazing.
I went to a strict school. Even if a button was missing here and a clip missing there, we were punished.
Shopping is great in Hyderabad and is better than in Mumbai.
I was still in school when I heard about this audition for this fairness cream ad. I got selected and subsequently, did a lot of ads and I got noticed by Ramesh Taurani and Ken Ghosh and 'Ishq Vishk' happened.
Playing a mature role was challenging for me.
I like watching Bengali film DVDs with sub-titles.
I have never been in a race where I would do anything to be here. That's a lethal mindset with which girls enter the film industry.
I have always been very choosy. I am very particular about banners and filmmakers. Everything has to be top-of-the-line; I have never compromised on that.
I think '50s was the golden period. I am a fan of '50s cinema. I wish I was born at that time.
Love-making is so personal to me that if I do it on screen, it is like I am leaving a part of my soul. I cannot do that.
I don't believe in any crore club.
All in all Hyderabad is a beautiful city. I think I have fallen in love with it.
I have refused to do plenty of films since there are some scenes that I am not comfortable doing on screen.
I have been trained for three years in Hindustani classical music. I keep humming and many Bollywood co-stars have been victimized by my relentless singing.
Sharing screen space with Mr. Bachchan was a dream come true.
It feels great to be on the same pedestal as Madhuri Dixit.
Once a fan did something really sweet for me. He came all the way from Nasik and literally lived outside my house from morning to night. When the security guard and my driver told me about this, I invited him to Film City and he was so happy.
It is something unique to the South, the way people look up to actors and worship them and literally celebrate their film.
Directors typecasting actors is passe.
I want people to think that if I'm in a film, then that film definitely has good content.
According to me, the most stylish person in Bollywood is none other than Sushmita Sen. I have grown up in awe of her since I was in school.
I have read Geminis are peaceful, who have an eye for finer things. That ways, yes, I'm a true Gemini.
Constant romance with my laptop through the day is a must for me, whether I am using it to send emails or just google something, which I do quite often, as I love to keep myself well-informed with my Blackberry.
Both my mom and dad were quite supportive. They never ever stopped me in realizing my dreams in the film industry.
I have always been a family person.
I personally have a silver idol of Lord Ganesh that I reuse every year. Don't measure your devotion with the size of the idol.
I have been fortunate that my commercials became famous and the best directors have managed to work on my terms. I didn't have to chase anyone.
I keep a track of all that my fans say about me online.
I never had any Godfather nor superstar boyfriends to piggy ride upon in the film industry.
I had trained in Hindustani classical singing and my mother thought I could become a playback singer, but I always wanted to become an actor.
Not many directors have the courage to make movies that are against conventional, commercial norms.
I love home cooked Mangalorean food with all our coconut based gravies with different sprouts.
Before I go to bed I clean my face with a cleansing milk and cotton pads and then wash my face thoroughly with a foamy face wash. I apply a calamine lotion on my face and a medicated moisturizer on my face and neck. I repeat the same procedure after I wake up in the morning.
I'm constantly evolving. I can just say that I'm attuning myself to contemporary fashion, moulding myself to opportunities.
There is so much corruption on so many levels of democracy that the common man is deprived of the basic rights.
I wish I could play an actress of the '50s. It will be the happiest thing for me to do.
When I debut on television with 'Meri Awaaz Hi Pehchaan Hai,' there were a lot of things that I experienced as an actor and felt that one could get into more nuances in terms of characterization. At the end of it, I wept non-stop for 15 minutes to get out of that character. It was that kind of emotional bond.
For me 'Satyagraha' is a big film as I am working with Amitabh Bachchan. It is a big opportunity.
I was very clear that when I do a fiction show the content has to be very unique.
Love is unplanned.
I am happy that a script like 'Meri Awaaz Hi Pehchaan Hai' is character-driven and has a lot of freshness to it.
In 2010 I had signed three big banner films with actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Tabu, Arjun Rampal. Directors like Ken Ghosh, Bela Bhansali signed me and I had got my signing amounts but those films did not take off at all.
I believe that we all have ambitions and we all want to achieve something. But the larger things in life that happen to us are already pre-meditated, pre-destined. So we should just romance life.
Anyway, I am a private person. You will never hear me talk about or promote my family.
For me fitness is not about fighting fat or aiming thinness, it is about having the stamina and physical energy to keep up with my professional demands and day to day requirements of life.
As an actress who wants to sustain her career, I would like to work and experiment with different types of looks and performances.
There was a time when the industry would typecast actors. It still continues to an extent on the celluloid but with the digital medium coming to the fore, the actors are finding equal status with the stars.
For one thing, vegetarians are, on average, fitter and trimmer than meat-eaters are, so the best thing that young people who want to look their best can do is to keep meat off their plates.
Acting is not very easy; the more you have worked, the more it gets difficult.
'Satyagraha' brought the actress out in me and I am proud to be a part of this film.
Cinema is a slice of reality. You have school and college kids being intimate and marriage is not even in question and that is what they show in cinema.
A lipstick and eyeliner and a powder compact can keep you looking fresh and attractive all day.
As the cinema is changing, on-screen kissing, love-making scenes are becoming part of the narrative. I am not saying it is wrong, because it is the reflection of how our society has changed and become comfortable with it. But I am uncomfortable performing it on screen.
While we are originally from Mangalore, my grandfather had migrated to Burma from where he returned to join the Indian National Army and settled in Mumbai, where I was born and brought up.
It is unintentional that I will do less films, it just happened that way. Like in 2000, I had a line of films signed but it all went for a toss. The films never got made... It just happens.
Hyderabad is a hot city, with hot food and hot people!
I have never chosen to comment on any piece of news about me.
Innocence has died in Bollywood.
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