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"āIām not particularly intellectual, the way I approach things. Iām a completely physically actor; I think physically and I let my body lead me to the emotions.ā[https://variety.com/2020/tv/features/sophie-okonedo-ratched-criminal-uk-psychology-1234775958/ ]"
"āI use all sorts of sources ā but I always go back to the script. And then I just let the thing live in my body a bit. So when Iām on set Iām not thinking in any linear way about what Iām doing: I just do it.ā"
"I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening."
"But I'm pretty secure about who I am. Anything that's truthful I'm not ashamed of."
"When I do things that aren't very good, I'm worse as an actor. I don't know what I pick up - but it's something not very nice."
"I'd hate to lose the character actress part of me, because, by God, the parts are much more interesting. As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in television, I was offered a whole spectrum of parts. I'd love to be able to follow that through into my newly-formed film career which I didn't expect to get at 36!"
"I'm drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. I'm not saying I don't love films about super-people or super-doctors, but my preference is for stories about how we get through this life, what it is to be human, because I'm always struggling with it myself."
"Without hammering you over the head with it, the movie gets you to ask questions. That's what good movies do."
"I'm just going where the stories are. I'll quite happily work in a tiny theater in the middle of nowhere if it's the right story. It always leaves a bit of a nasty taste in my mouth when I do something purely for money. I always end up being absolute shit in it. I'm not really an actor who can make rubbish writing good. Some people are very good at it. It's a real skill."
"[on being awarded the OBE in June 2010] The cherry on the cake and way beyond anything I would have imagined for myself."
"Being a character actor, I can go on until I'm 70 or 80; I'm not bound to the way I look."
"The repetition of the theatre means you've got the time to get deeply inside the person you're playing."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.