Quotes by Riya Sen - Page 2

Oh, Raima and I gel very well on screen. Our natural sibling camaraderie is evident once the cameras started rolling.
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Camaraderie
Evident
Rolling
Sibling
Gel
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'Jhankaar Beats' is a great movie with fabulous music. But when I see myself in it as an actor, I feel so tiny and young.
Riya Sen /
Beats
Fabulous
Tiny
Music Great Myself
Great Movie
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I believe comedy is the toughest genre to bring alive onscreen, but it's something that I really enjoy doing as an actor.
Riya Sen /
Onscreen
Toughest
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Every film that you are doing, you feel it's the best you've done, and you really enjoy it, until you move on to the next.
Riya Sen /
Move On
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No boyfriends please. They are just waste of time, and frankly speaking I don't have time or energy to run after boyfriends.
Riya Sen /
Boyfriend
Frankly
Waste Of Time
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I go by my own body type when it comes to fasting, which means that I would not follow some general advice or rule of thumb.
Riya Sen /
Fasting
Thumb
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I want to have the kind of marriage that will last forever. The kind of marriage that will make my kids want to get married.
Riya Sen /
Get Married
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I love ghosts. I've actually seen a couple of spirits in my life and almost every single night, till today, I try and watch a scary film.
Riya Sen /
Life Love Today
Every Single Night
Ghosts
Till
Single Night
Spirits
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Even when I went out, people had this perception that 'Oh Riya Sen' because they feel what you're on screen, you're the same in real life.
Riya Sen /
Perception
Life People Feel
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I enjoy wearing a saree more than a mini skirt and maybe that has come off as bad acting in some of my films, because I didn't fit in there.
Riya Sen /
Bad Acting
Mini
Skirt
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Chocolates tempt me a lot and I love binging on them. Sometime back, I had hogged so many of them that I had to go to Bangkok for treatment.
Riya Sen /
Bangkok
Treatment
Love Me Back
Chocolates
Sometime
Tempt
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Marriage largely entails love, respect, honesty, understanding and trust between two people, which only you can create for yourself to make it last.
Riya Sen /
Honesty
Entails
Largely
Two People
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People think that just because I live in Mumbai, I'm not interested in Bengali films. But I want to act more in Tollywood because roles here are meatier.
Riya Sen /
Bengali
Mumbai
Not Interested
People Live More
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So my first role was when I was five years old. I had one scene with my mom in a Bengali film called 'Gajamukta.' After that, I thought I'd become Madhuri Dixit.
Riya Sen /
Bengali
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I definitely wanted to give acting a shot. And Mom helped me decide what I should do by insisting that my decision should be based on what I thought was right for me.
Riya Sen /
Insisting
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I am lucky that my in-laws are incredibly special people and I love them dearly. My father-in-law is an extraordinary man and my mom-in-law a beautiful and brave woman.
Riya Sen /
Brave
Father In Law
In-laws
Dearly
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I grew up with Tagore and nobody ever expresses the emotion of love like he did and he understood women so well. He is the perfect man everybody dreams of, including me.
Riya Sen /
Perfect Man
Dreams Love Women
Expresses
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I don't drink everywhere, as I am not a hard drinker. I also prefer not to drink in those parties where there is a huge gathering of people. For me, drinking is private.
Riya Sen /
Drinking
Gathering
I Am Me People
Me I Am People
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Digital content is getting very popular especially with the youth in India, hence short films are a great opportunity to tell different kinds of stories for the young audiences.
Riya Sen /
Different Kinds
Great Opportunity
Short Films
Hence
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I feel Bengali directors have offered me characters which have a story to tell and not just impress people because of what I wear in the film. That's the kind of roles I want to do.
Riya Sen /
Bengali
Impress
Me People Feel
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I have Kalpana Lajmi's 'Kyon.' It focuses on teenage crime. My mother will play my reel-life mother in the film. I am excited about it for the simple reason that I will do a film with my mother.
Riya Sen /
Teenage
Simple Reason
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Dad hails from the royal family of Tripura, Kooch Bihar and Baroda and is a great chef. Be it Nepalese, Italian, Lebanese, Chinese, Mughlai, Punjabi or Thai cuisine, he knows the nuances of them all.
Riya Sen /
Chef
Cuisine
Italian
Lebanese
Royal
Royal Family
Thai
Family Great Dad
Nuances
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When I look at my earlier work, I often wonder why I acted like that, why I wore that dress, why I said that dialogue... Why couldn't I do it better? I realized I was too young then and not confident.
Riya Sen /
Dialogue
Acted
Earlier
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When you start your career, you act in all kinds of movies. You don't pick and choose. But later on, you may feel that there were some films where you should have given a second thought before saying yes.
Riya Sen /
Pick And Choose
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Every time my sister and I went on the set with my mother, everyone would be like, 'Oh my god, she's going to become a star.' So in my head, I always thought I was going to be an actress, but not so soon.
Riya Sen /
God Time Always
Oh My God
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People who are my superfans will come to my app. Not everyone is going to come to the app. The superfans who come to my app will see the real me in a very different mode. That is the speciality of the app.
Riya Sen /
Me People Will
App
Me People Real
Mode
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I don't care if people compare me to my grandmother. I can never be like my grandmother. Nor was my grandmother ever like me. People may compare me with her or my mother, Moon Moon. But I am cool about it.
Riya Sen /
Compare
Moon
Cool I Am Me
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I never got the idea of the industry's understanding of the word 'sexy.' They always wanted me to wear a mini skirt or show some more cleavage. That's not sexy. You are sexy when you have a strong personality.
Riya Sen /
Cleavage
Mini
Skirt
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It wasn't me. I couldn't go on set every day, get my hair curled for hours and sit with all that make-up. It just didn't do it for me. I took a conscious decision to stop working in Bollywood movies at that time.
Riya Sen /
Bollywood
Conscious Decision
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Before social media actually came into play, there were only journalists, who would represent you. If I went to a party, I was written about negatively or sometimes in a positive way as well but it never was the actual thing.
Riya Sen /
Journalists
Negatively
Positive Way
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On the sets, Bharathirajaa would treat me like an adult even though I was just 16. One day, he slapped me. I was taken aback. I cried and went back to school. Then, he called me and said, 'You are like my daughter. Come back.'
Riya Sen /
Cried
Back To School
Slapped
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I realized some of the films I did, after a few hits that I had, they weren't working for me because I wasn't comfortable in the roles I was playing. That's why probably people thought I was a bad actress and I don't blame them.
Riya Sen /
Blame
Me People Bad
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Everyone wants to be glamorous, no doubt, but I was so young when I came here. I was doing all these roles, wearing a mini skirt, running around and acting 'cute.' When I'd watch myself on screen I'd be like 'eeks, I can't believe that's me.'
Riya Sen /
Glamorous
No Doubt
Myself Believe Me
Mini
Skirt
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If I wore a mini-skirt then it would become such a big deal, if I kissed on-screen then it was bold, it was glamorous but if the top actresses did it then no one would even discuss it. So I was like why do I have this sexy, wild and glamorous image?
Riya Sen /
Big Deal
Glamorous
Sexy
Bold
Discuss
On-Screen
Such A Big Deal
Wore
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I was in Calcutta and my parents had an offer for me to feature in Falguni Pathak's music video, produced by Universal Music. I was in Class 9 then, and pleaded to decline the offer because I was too shy. My parents explained that it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I was in tears because I was too shy and conscious in front of the camera.
Riya Sen /
Decline
Tears
Music Opportunity Me
Explained
Feature
Music Video
Produced
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