Tisca Chopra Quotes

Tisca Chopra

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 1, 1973

As women write, produce and direct more content, the gaze with which stories are told will also become sensible. Female actors will make their own content, if no one else will do it for them.

Tisca Chopra

I like to act, write, produce and direct.

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The kind of roles one wants to do arent being written; the stories one wants to tell are few and far between; and the ones that come to me, I do them.

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Acting Smart is a handbook to help one navigate through the industry. Ive spoken to filmmakers such as Imtiaz Ali and Raju Hirani, Boman Irani and other actors, as well as designers such as Manish Malhotra and Wendell Rodricks.

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I was in the final year of my English Literature degree at Hindu College, Delhi University, when I came to Mumbai. I liked the city and the sense of freedom - here, I wasnt a principals daughter anymore.

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I started doing theatre with Satyadev Dubey at Prithvi and I had to start from scratch. I had fallen in love with the craft of acting by then.

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I think I enjoy my life doing multiple things, I would be easily bored if I did just one thing.

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Its always nice to work with fresh directors. They bring such passion and enthusiasm to the work.

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I want to do an action film, I would love to do a period drama, a biopic, a crime story.

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As an actor, we are always greedy to do more and imagining different films.

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Happiness comes from different things. The kind of exposure and reach you get from a film, it makes you happy. Any film that you do has a lot of reach.

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Television is instant gratification. We do an episode and we instantly get a reaction for the same. Theatre on the other hand is very satisfying as an actor. It is purely a few thousand people who come to watch the theatre.

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People are used to seeing me in make-up and blow-dried hair but after a point I felt like pushing myself. As an actor, I try to inhabit the character. It is the way to tell people about your skills through your looks.

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I believe I owe it to my body to keep it supple and fit.

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Mornings are the most crucial time of day for me. I like the silence.

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Yoga is my all-time go to exercise. When I travel, a yoga mat accompanies me.

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My family was progressive yet traditional in their beliefs. There was pressure on me to perform well academically. I topped my university. But I was a rebel with a cause.

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The mid-90s were really not the high point of fashion for anybody - I had a fashion disaster when I wore heavily sequined clothes which cut my armpits and I bled during the filming of my first movie!

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My movies had flopped but discovering theatre was perhaps the biggest things that happened to me at 22.

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The casting couch exists in every business where there is power dynamics and manipulation.

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