Padmapriya Janakiraman Quotes

Padmapriya Janakiraman

Profession : Actress

Birth : February 28, 1982

The only philosophy that I'm not confused about in life is love.

Padmapriya Janakiraman

I am basically a theatre artiste. However, after stepping into cinema, I did not get much opportunity to act in plays.

Padmapriya Janakiraman

Malayalam actress Ann Augustine, director V K Prakash, writer Jayaprakah Kulur and I have planned to produce quality dramas and to take it to a wide range of audience. We are making some popular works into stage plays.

Padmapriya Janakiraman

I have acted in 20 films in various languages and won 13 awards for my acting skills.

Padmapriya Janakiraman

I am not a good actor. There is much more to do and learn.

Padmapriya Janakiraman

In any language, I would like to do my best!

Padmapriya Janakiraman

I am a director's actor. It is a director's medium, definitely. That doesn't mean I stop using my head.

Padmapriya Janakiraman

All my directors have tried to draw the best out of me at that point of time.

Padmapriya Janakiraman

I am not revolutionary or experimental, but I am curious and love to explore and indulge in life.

Padmapriya Janakiraman

Cinema is a male-dominated bastion and one has to be patient.

Padmapriya Janakiraman

It's a misconception that an intelligent person can't act and I want people to discard such notions.

Padmapriya Janakiraman

I hate flashy metrosexual men. I prefer a rustic man who will make a long-time companion.

Padmapriya Janakiraman

I had a smooth take-off in Malayalam, I would like to explore more and take up films that are different in Tamil.

Padmapriya Janakiraman

I always celebrated my birthdays with my parents. There is no question of not being with them on that day.

Padmapriya Janakiraman

In spite of its relatively nascent rise in popularity, tea joints across the country are romanticized, quite like beer pubs in the West.

Padmapriya Janakiraman

It has been a fairy tale for an outsider, bouncing from one film set to another, choosing my films as assertively as those films chose me. And through this journey I have not once faced the dreaded syndrome of the 'casting couch.'

Padmapriya Janakiraman

The Hegelian dynamic plays out daily on and off the film sets - women are not lesser beings, but because they are assumed to be, they are subjected to inferior conditions. And this inferiority projects itself through the feeling of weakness and subjugation.

Padmapriya Janakiraman

The Weinstein story and the way it has shaken the roots of Hollywood has made apparent the fact that, across the world, there is a pressing need to recognize and correct the circumstances women subsist in, in order to move forward.

Padmapriya Janakiraman

In a crazy, high-pressure environment like a film set, eventually a peculiar kind of empathy develops for your co-workers.

Padmapriya Janakiraman