A biography for Deepti Navalhasn’t been written yet.
“I always thought I wouldn't do well on stage.”
“As an artist, the work that I have done in my career has always and will always make me happy.”
“I feel envious of people who have been connected to music throughout their lives.”
“I love going off in the wilderness.”
“I like to read people's gestures and implement them into my acting.”
“I was fascinated with Urdu ever since I was a child.”
“There was a time when Prakash, our daughter Disha, Vinod - who I was seeing then - and I went out to dinner. People thought it was very strange. But I have always felt if you can't work out one equation - the man/woman one - you don't have to lose out on the person altogether.”
“It's okay to do a small role in mainstream cinema like 'Aurangzeb' or 'Yaariyan.' But it's films like Rituparno Ghosh's 'Memories Of March' and Avinash Kumar Singh's 'Listen Amaya' that sustain me as an actress.”
“Autobiographies give you the picture of the person behind the image on screen, because that's never really you.”
“When roles that mattered to me started drying up, I took to the brush and camera to connect with myself and the world.”
“I wish I was born 20 years earlier so I could have worked with Bimal Roy, Guru Dutt, and K. Asif.”
“I have written much more than I have had published.”
“For me, when I am in front of the camera, that's real, that's the moment I want to live.”
“Personally, I've always felt that I've enjoyed my work. But there have been times where I've have waited for interesting work to come my way.”
“I was really keen on making a film on Balraj Sahni. But when I approached his son Parikshat for his consent, he told me he had already given the filming rights on his father's life to another producer.”
“I give a lot of credit to my wanderings. Because it just opens up your mind to life itself.”
“Most of my awards come from foreign festivals!”
“Each and every role I have done has been a conscious decision.”
“My role in Nandita Das' 'Firaaq' as a woman too impotent to intervene when her community resorts to brutality and violence has struck a chord wherever the film has been screened.”
“I don't know about the public and the industry, but I am an all-time Sanjay Leela Bhansali fan. His cinema is completely stylized and commercial and yet hugely experimental.”