A biography for Sameera Reddyhasn’t been written yet.
“While 'Tezz' is being touted as an action-thriller, I feel there is an immense emotional connect.”
“Working with Gautham Menon is like working with a friend. He says the scene once and I do it once and he okays it. He is very quick.”
“With Prabhu Deva, you have to fulfil his exact vision. Till then, he will not be satisfied, because his film has his vision and he will make it only in that way.”
“I have enjoyed the films directed by Prabhu Deva and simply love his choreography. And he is the best dancer India has. I feel he knows what the audience wants, and that is why the films he has directed are hits.”
“The ability to play different people, grasp at what is running in their head and be somebody completely different from who I am, is fascinating.”
“An actor had made a comment and said, 'You are so unapproachable.' He called me boring and said, 'You're no fun.' He also said, 'I don't know if I ever want to work with you again.' And I never worked with him after that film.”
“I have always done justice to my role and I don't worry about being overshadowed.”
“All of us struggle to live up to the image that's drawn for us. Perfect body, perfect skin, perfect house - we are put in a frame with a picture that 'others' decide for us. If we work to live up to just that, when will we do what we like?”
“I always go with what I feel is right.”
“I just don't like to comment on my personal life.”
“When you are a queen in your own country, why would you want to go anywhere else?”
“What happened during my first pregnancy was that I took a lot of hormones. I had problems with my pregnancy and I was bed-ridden. I had tonnes of issues but it was my mental state that consumed me. I felt like I failed at myself.”
“Most actresses began their career as glamorous pin-ups before being noticed for their acting talents.”
“My mother does not give up and she never has on anything. I love her zest for life. She has never ever let me accept defeat when it comes to goals that I've had or even if it is just making sure that I never lose my zest for life.”
“Akshai is well-known in his own field but not part of showbiz. I think that was very important for me. I wanted to marry outside the film industry.”
“Social media is not a platform where you can please everybody.”
“The perfect body and the perfect face that I worked on, for my film career, broke apart and I was completely lost.”
“I understand that there are two kinds of films, there is the kind of cinema which allows you the opportunity to be an actor and then there are the masala entertainers. I have done both.”
“Everybody has to start from somewhere. I was also a newcomer once.”
“Children need to be comforted when they're sick.”