Suriya (Saravanan Sivakumar) Quotes
From my side, I don't put pressure on the director to cater to a certain image. I am happy to do different films, and I have to stick by my director. I like to completely surrender myself to the director - that way, I think, I don't get to do the similar roles.
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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I'm a believer in trusting the director.
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I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.
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The audience has always been my best director.
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On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.
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I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.
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I need to thank my director, producers, and artists as well crew members of all my projects.
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Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel.
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I am done with the cliched heroine roles. I can't go to work without a challenge. I want to do films that drive me, films in which I am a part of the main plot.
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But as far as dream roles - I know this is so expected of me, but I would to play Elphaba in 'Wicked' on Broadway. I have a lot of dream roles, but that's like my main one because of the vocal track. I love belting high things!
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.
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When I die and go to hell, the devil is going to make me the marketing director for a cola company. I’ll be in charge of trying to sell a product that no one needs, is identical to its competition, and can’t be sold on its merits. I’d be competing head-on in the cola wars, on price, distribution, advertising, and promotion, which would indeed be hell for me. Remember, I’m the kid who couldn’t play competitive games. I’d much rather design and sell products so good and unique that they have no competition.
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Snow Cake is a lovely film. Really proud of that. We shot it in 21 days. I thought Sigourney was amazing in it. And very, very accurate. I think there was some element that thought she had pushed it too far. But not at all when you do the amount of homework she had done and spent the amount of time she did with adult autistics. She was right on the money. And I think Marc Evans is a terrific director. He's a sweet, open, honest man and a really good director of actors.
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It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.
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God can dream a bigger dream for me, for you, than you could ever dream for yourself. When you've worked as hard and done as much and strived and tried and given and pled and bargained and hoped... Surrender. When you have done all that you can do, and there's nothing left for you to do, give it up. Give it up to that thing that is greater than yourself, and let it then become a part of the flow.
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It's hard to find black roles that are just whimsical and fun and colorful. And I think, in many ways, that can be just as powerful in making commentary about race through movies.
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I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Americans have only the dimmest notion of what their constitutional freedoms are - and what it took to get them...and the willingness to surrender what we're supposed to be fighting for is a recurring part of our history.
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I like sporks. They're like spoons, but you can poke people with them.
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I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.
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From my side, I don't put pressure on the director to cater to a certain image. I am happy to do different films, and I have to stick by my director. I like to completely surrender myself to the director - that way, I think, I don't get to do the similar roles.
