Quotes from Amrita Rao

In Shyam Benegal's 'Welcome To Sajjanpur,' I'm an illiterate village girl.

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.

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.

With a production house like Padmalya Films and a co-star like Mahesh Babu, 'Atithi' was just the right film to debut with.

I would love to work with any actor who is dedicated enough.

There is so much corruption on so many levels of democracy that the common man is deprived of the basic rights.

For me, my level of comfort is the prime factor. I'd never compromise on my comfort, no matter how much a script needs it.

All in all Hyderabad is a beautiful city. I think I have fallen in love with it.

Anyway, I am a private person. You will never hear me talk about or promote my family.

I feel so proud of being able to vote for the first time. I keep looking at the black mark on my finger proudly. For years I envied that tell-tale mark on my parents' finger.

Most of my roles have had streaks of a real girl from the real world.

Just because gladiator shoes are in, everybody can't start flaunting those.

I think '50s was the golden period. I am a fan of '50s cinema. I wish I was born at that time.

The Delhi winter is amazing.

Kareena Kapoor is a rare film star.

I prefer to be liberal and non-judgmental, which helps me reaching out to the people in a better way.

I wish I could play an actress of the '50s. It will be the happiest thing for me to do.

I am happy that a script like 'Meri Awaaz Hi Pehchaan Hai' is character-driven and has a lot of freshness to it.

I have refused to do plenty of films since there are some scenes that I am not comfortable doing on screen.

In cinema, you have a captive audience, but to grab the attention of a housewife, who is in the middle of her household work and to keep them gripped to you, is a huge challenge.

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.

It is something unique to the South, the way people look up to actors and worship them and literally celebrate their film.

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.

I call being vegetarian the 'Wow Rao' diet. Wow because I know that being vegetarian is the best thing I can do for myself, the animals and the environment.