Author Profile
Shabana Azmi
1950 • Indian • Actress
61
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 61 quotesI think men and women are different - I am not saying better or worse, just different.— Shabana Azmi
When I entered the industry in the early 1970s, I was a gold medalist from the film institute, Pune. That was when graduates from the film institute were very quickly absorbed by the mainstream commercial industry.— Shabana Azmi
In Kaifi's poetry and in his work as a social activist, every setback only strengthened his resolve to fight back with renewed vigor and strength.— Shabana Azmi
'Aurat' is an iconic poem which is relevant 70 years later and informs me in the work I do with women.— Shabana Azmi
Over the years, I've consciously not done films that in any way suggest that women are subservient to men.— Shabana Azmi
I grew up in a family that believed that art should be used as an instrument for social change.— Shabana Azmi
For a long time I didn't believe that I couldn't become a mother. But when I finally came to terms with it, then I didn't look back.— Shabana Azmi
I take care to conduct myself formally in public and not be brash. That is a given for people in public life. But I'm very bohemian and informal when I'm with friends.— Shabana Azmi
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
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
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
I find it amusing that every time I was asked when I will work with Zoya or Farhan, I was quoted as saying, 'It will be easier to convince Steven Spielberg to cast me rather than my own children.' That has come true.— Shabana Azmi
Kangana has started believing in her own myth. She says she taught feminism to the film industry, she taught it nationalism. I'm glad she spelled that out because nobody else had noticed! I think she fears the day when she will no longer be in the headlines and so has to keep making outrageous statements to stay in the news.— Shabana Azmi
At the age of seven, I wanted a doll with blonde hair and blue eyes like other girls in my class. But my father gave me a black doll and said 'black is beautiful.' Telling this to a seven-year-old was quite peculiar, but these were the values we inherited from him.— Shabana Azmi