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I am on a strict diet now and medication. It's torture, I simply cannot eat every two hours, which is the way all nutrition plans work these days. I lose weight but the minute I start eating again, I rapidly put it back.
- Shabana Azmi
#Diet
#I Am
#Lose
#Start
#Work
Not belonging to any political party actually helps me because I value my independent voice above everything else, I treasure it.
- Shabana Azmi
#Independent
#Me
#Political
#Value
#Voice
Unfortunately, the Hindi film industry is a sitting duck; it is easy to hurl malevolent accusations. It is a systematic campaign to divert attention from real issues, failing economy, China border tensions, spiraling Covid cases, and farmers' agitation by putting the spotlight on the supposed ills of the film industry.
- Shabana Azmi
#Attention
#Campaign
#Duck
#Easy
#Real
Some parents are ambivalent about vaccination after reading misinformed pieces and watching misleading videos on a popular mobile chat application. By electing to avoid vaccinating their child, they are denying their child's right to be protected against these severe diseases.
- Shabana Azmi
#Avoid
#Parents
#Reading
#Right
#Watching
Acting is all about reacting. When you look into the eyes of your co-star and there is truth in his eyes, giving a reaction becomes so much easier.
- Shabana Azmi
#Acting
#Eyes
#Look
#Reaction
#Truth
An Indian Muslim can aspire to become a Shah Rukh Khan, can aspire to become an Irfan Pathan or even the President of India. And that makes the Muslim here far more hopeful and far less in despair than in any other part of the world.
- Shabana Azmi
#Despair
#Far
#Indian
#More
#World
'Aurat' is an iconic poem which is relevant 70 years later and informs me in the work I do with women.
- Shabana Azmi
#Iconic
#Me
#Relevant
#Women
#Work
Because I was involved in so many other areas of life and so many productive activities, I wasn't judged for not being a mother. There was no pressure on me for not having children.
- Shabana Azmi
#Children
#Life
#Me
#Mother
#Pressure
In 1986, I had gone on a hunger strike with Anand Patwardhan rooting for an alternative land for slum dwellers. My mother got very nervous and told my father to tell me that, 'what am I doing?' He sent me a telegram that read: 'Best of luck, comrade!'
- Shabana Azmi
#Best
#Doing
#Father
#Luck
#Me
Fear is a phenomena that each one of us faces, in different ways.
- Shabana Azmi
#Different Ways
#Different
#Fear
#Us
Why is a woman always judged only on the basis of her relationship with her family members and the time she gives them, and not on the basis of her success at work?
- Shabana Azmi
#Family
#Success
#Time
#Woman
#Work
Look at poor Nirupa Roy. She got substantial roles, but at 30 they made her put grey in her hair. And Achala Sachdev was all of 16 when she played 60. She quit because she got nightmares about dropping a thali and screaming, 'Nahin!' You know an actor or any other human being needs to be comfortable in her space at whatever age she is.
- Shabana Azmi
#Age
#Grey
#Hair
#Look
#Space
My parents always encouraged us to speak our minds and to be respectful while doing so about issues that we thought strongly about and that was unconditional.
- Shabana Azmi
#Always
#Doing
#Parents
#Speak
#Us
Acting in itself is changing. This change is because of the advent of the casting director. Earlier, there would be stock characters, who would be seen in every film. Now, casting directors are bringing fresh faces.
- Shabana Azmi
#Acting
#Change
#Film
#Fresh
#Now
I grew up in a family that believed that art should be used as an instrument for social change.
- Shabana Azmi
#Art
#Change
#Family
#Social
#Up
Im hoping that for film actors there is this kind of emotional trigger on any subject. It need not be only slums. It can be anything. But even if it is tentative, sooner or later, it will - by its sheer force - engulf you in a way where you make a commitment and you get involved in it, beyond just making it an image-building exercise.
- Shabana Azmi
#Commitment
#Exercise
#Film
#Way
#Will
What bothers me about red carpet, particularly Cannes, is that it's an extremely important festival where stunning films are shown and nothing of that ever comes in papers. It's always celebrities standing with one hand on waist, I don't know who decided that as an attractive position.
- Shabana Azmi
#Attractive
#Important
#Me
#Nothing
#Red
In times of crisis the artist must rise to the challenge and try to make sense from the chaos.
- Shabana Azmi
#Challenge
#Chaos
#Crisis
#Rise
#Try
We need role models in our society that the youth can look up to because that space is shrinking.
- Shabana Azmi
#Look
#Need
#Society
#Space
#Youth
My father was a rare poet. He was somebody who worked in the trenches. When he wanted to speak about social justice or gender empowerment, he spoke through his poetry.
- Shabana Azmi
#Father
#Gender
#Justice
#Poetry
#Speak
I absolutely loved working with Mahesh Bhatt. He and I were so much in tune that he would just press a button and I would start.
- Shabana Azmi
#He
#Just
#Loved
#Press
#Start
What I value is that I have been able to do some modest work to help women rise to the level of their potential.
- Shabana Azmi
#Help
#Rise
#Value
#Women
#Work
I can't describe fear as well as I can describe courage. Courage is when you overcome fear.
- Shabana Azmi
#Courage
#Fear
#I Can
#Overcome
#Well
I look back on my career with some sort of satisfaction.
- Shabana Azmi
#Back
#Career
#Look
#Satisfaction
#Sort
India is a country that lives in several centuries simultaneously, and her people at any given time and place encapsulate all the contradictions that come from being a multi-cultural, multi-religious and multi-lingual society.
- Shabana Azmi
#Country
#People
#Place
#Society
#Time
It is accepted the world over that women are an essential part of what makes a society successful, and only through supporting and empowering women can a country truly be strong.
- Shabana Azmi
#Be Strong
#Society
#Strong
#Women
#World
Valentine's day has been reduced to a marketing gimmick. Buying diamonds for your beloved has no appeal for me.
- Shabana Azmi
#Day
#Diamonds
#Me
#Valentine's Day
#Your
I'm singularly lucky to have worked with directors who dared me to take risks and be different and I am thankful to the Indian film industry for giving me my primary identity.
- Shabana Azmi
#I Am
#Identity
#Me
#Risks
#Thankful
We never had money but it was never a problem. The spirit of comradeship, the commitment to gender equality, social justice and a celebration of pluralism and India's composite culture provided the glue that kept us joyous and closely bonded.
- Shabana Azmi
#Culture
#Equality
#Justice
#Money
#Never
I'm not a great stickler for giving or receiving presents on birthdays, anniversaries, etc. as a 'must do.' I prefer giving a gift without occasion if I feel it's something a friend will like.
- Shabana Azmi
#Feel
#Friend
#Gift
#Great
#Will
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