"I think I was born to dance. That’s what my grandmother told me. So it was always in my system."

"But first I was made to learn music, because music and dance go together. You can sing, but you can’t dance without m…"

"I was surrounded by dance, music and religious chants, so it was that kind of a mood. Our family was very culturally-…"

"We came from a conservative family, many of whom had never even gone to school. But I was sent to a convent and every…"

"I was cast as a college girl and that wasn’t really hard to play as I was very young then. I was treated as a child o…"

"She says she was the only south Indian actress who could speak Hindi without a South Indian accent, at the time."

"There were no acting schools or workshops then. What came naturally to you, is all you had. But Bharata Natyam taught…"

"If Bharatanatyam helped my movies, I cannot say the same about films helping my Bharatanatyam."

"There were so many different characters that I have played. Radha in Sangam was a very sophisticated woman and the se…"

"I always cribbed about having such a long name and my grandmother would say that nobody else will be called ‘Vyjayant…"