A biography for Padmapriya Janakiramanhasn’t been written yet.
“When you live with a character in your mind, after a while you start to behave like them, act like them and connect with them. That is how acting happens for me.”
“I am hungry as an actor.”
“It has been a fairy tale for an outsider, bouncing from one film set to another, choosing my films as assertively as those films chose me. And through this journey I have not once faced the dreaded syndrome of the 'casting couch.'”
“Language is not a barrier, specially Hindi. It is the only language I read, write and speak in and so it is far easier than South Indian languages.”
“If I had my way, I would have started my career with Hindi films.”
“Actually, I am a typical middle-class girl.”
“I do want to get into the government and work for finance management divisions and policy management, but they are all long-term dreams and I don't know when I'll decide to go for it.”
“My parents live in Hyderabad and I visit the city often.”
“I have always been a pan-Indian actress with pan-Indian taste.”
“As an artiste, you get a high when you are given roles that are challenging.”
“It wasn't because of Striker's bad performance that I didn't sign any film in Bollywood. There wasn't much to do in Bollywood, and the offers weren't great too.”
“Shwetha Menon is my good friend and I have nothing against her. But, the Kerala State Award for the Best Actress has been given to her for Paleri Manickam' in which somebody else dubbed for her. I received only the second best actress award for my performance in Pazhassi Raja,' where I have dubbed in my own voice.”
“Hyderabad is home after all. This is where I grew up.”
“Malayalam actress Ann Augustine, director V K Prakash, writer Jayaprakah Kulur and I have planned to produce quality dramas and to take it to a wide range of audience. We are making some popular works into stage plays.”
“I am a greedy actor, and it upsets me losing work I have wanted to do, but that is a motivator not a dampener.”
“I think classical dance is not seeing the evolution seen by classical music.”
“Professionally, I haven't done any film in 2013 as I was studying in NYU.”
“I am a director's actor. It is a director's medium, definitely. That doesn't mean I stop using my head.”
“Malayalam films just fell into my lap.”
“When the women in any other film industry are almost equal to men, in Malayalam only one or two women are among the crew.”