'If you don't get married, it's not a crime. If you do, it's not an achievement either.'

'Pagalpanti has no double meaning, no exposure, no bloodshed... Even the villain is very cute!'

'Both Kangana and Rangoli really love me and that's because they give me so much of time and attention from their lives.'

'Wherever I am, in the country or abroad, I spend at least one hour on myself.''If you aren't doing that, you are doing injustice to yourself.'

'Physical compatibility is very important among couples before marriage.'

'I would get very pampered on the sets so my grandpa used to get very scared about that.''He would think I would feel great from inside and my life would get messed up.'

'If anybody wants me to act in their film for free, just make me sing all the songs!''I don't even care about the script.'

'When films resonate with the audience, it gives you the confidence to take more risks.'

'Relationships have changed so dynamically that the 'woh' doesn't have to be a person.'

'We should not forget the sacrifice these men made.'

'I truly believe that Durga resides in us, women,' says Rani Mukerji. 'If a woman believes that and she chanalises that energy, she will be able to ward off a lot of things.'

'There is an anger simmering in a few people whose mindsets are neck deep in tradition. They are simmering because they feel how is it that she's able to educate herself? How is it that she's allowed to talk over me? How is it that she's allowed to do what she wants to do? This is coming out in these crimes,' says Rani Mukerji.

'I don't make big budget films. So if my film makes Rs 120 crore, it's a huge hit. We finish fast, make it on a small budget and recover fast,' Akshay Kumar tells Patcy N/Rediff.com.

'I want to be that actress who does everything. I want to be that actress who does Lootera as well as Dabangg,' says Sonakshi Sinha.

'Dabangg 3 has fallen in place. Even the fourth one has fallen in place.''This happens only for films like Rocky or Rambo.'

'Time is throwing something at you, one should grab such opportunities right away.'

'There are times when I have to convince myself to go on the sets to shoot.'

'I feel like I came to the industry just day before yesterday, even though it's more than 30 years now.'

'Ishaan was around me a lot and I was around Ishaan a lot but we were promoting Dhadak; we had no one else to be around,' Janhvi Kapoor spills her hearts out on #NoFilterNeha.

'Kabir Singh will be very special for me, but my goal is to make each character as memorable as Preeti.'

'Access is such a big step.''But once you enter those rooms, it's up to what you do in those rooms.''Film-making is a very expensive business and they will not put money into people they don't believe in.''So talent speaks at the end of the day.'

'A lot of people struggle to become a part of this industry, but I was lucky that I did not have to really struggle.''My struggle started after becoming a part of this industry, and, Oh my God, the struggle!'

'This is the first time when you see the story of the Azad Hind Fauj through the eyes of the soldiers.'

'I don't like watching myself. I find my voice very irritating,' Disha Patani tells us.

'You cannot show that you give out your country's secrets to a terrorist just because you are in love.'

'The story has to be told well, it has to be marketed and presented well, and now, released well too.''Only then will the film do well.''The actor walks away with the victory credit, but we do not give enough credit to the script writers, directors and producers who put up a film that shines.'

'In every film, I have a message and in Shikara, it is, 'Todo nahin, jodo (Unite, don't divide)'.'

'The skin of any celebrity will show its age more than a normal person because we are always exposed to lights. So, we need to take extra care.'

'I know rapes haven't stopped after PINK, but now the topic of 'No means No' has become a table discussion at every home. And this is a big thing.''Thappad will at least start a discussion.'

'I just have to go on set with conviction and honesty and portray the characters. Whether it is the consumption of alcohol or premarital sex or bad language or whatever that my character indulges in the film, are these the things I stand for? I don't know.'

'Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan will make you go home and think.'

'He's got such incredible resilience, such an incredible spirit that we were feeding off his strength rather than him feeding off ours.''Sometimes I look back and cannot figure out how the f*** we made this movie.'

'When the trailer of Angrezi Medium came out, and when the credits were rolling in the end, with names like Irrfan Khan, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Deepak Dobriyal, Dimple Kapadia... that's when it hit me and I couldn't control my tears. That was the first time I realised that I was living my dream.'

'After Gully Boy, many interesting projects started coming my way.''But things really changed with the Filmfare. Now, people notice me.''It's a good space, where you don't have to tell people who you are.'

'The past two years have been dramatic, rather then traumatic.''I had bigger challenges that I have ever faced.'

'The day I am bored with acting, I will shift to something.'

'When it comes to work, he forgets his sleep, his food, everything.''He is too involved in the process and that gives him strength.'

'People have only seen me crying and being this martyr mother and sacrificing wife.''But I want to do something which is dark, something mysterious.'

'Instead of getting rehabilitated in Bollywood, I have forced into legal hassles while everyone else watches the drama.'

'Listen to my songs if they make you happy at home.'

'That's how you keep yourself alive and young.'

'I miss my grandparents the most. Though they are no more, I wish they were here. Quarantine would have been heaven.'

'I was almost forgotten after Filmistaan as nothing substantial, or should I say, successful in terms of box office, came my way.'

'It is very difficult for anybody to say no to the fame and fancies that come along.''But I was courageous and had the strength to say no.'

'The timing of the lockdown was such that Kriti was at home after more than a month of shooting.''So we are getting good family time.'

'I started as an outsider who walked her own path and now, it feels amazing to see how much love has come my way.'

'When you're an outsider, the journey to make it to your first film is a movie by itself.''It has struggle, pain, rejection, transformation...'

'If you are a performer, it's easier to sustain.''The day you think you are a star, it becomes difficult.'

'I meet him recently.''He was his usual cheerful, boisterous, self.''You didn't even get an iota of feeling about what he had gone through or may be going through internally.'

Please Join us for an American Folklife Center Summer Music Jam: Klezmer led by Howard Ungar and Seth Kibel

September 12, 2019, 7:00 to 9:00 pm 
Veterans History Project Information & Welcome Center (LJ-G51) 
Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress

The American Folklife Center's series of informal jams to celebrate our living folk traditions, and to bring to life the collections from our vast ethnographic archive continues in 2019. This jam will be led by Howard Ungar and Seth Kibel. So grab your violin, clarinet, trumpet, or other instruments, and come on over to the Library of Congress for the Klezmer Jam.

Seth Kibel is the leader, clarinetist, and composer for The Alexandria Kleztet, an innovative award-winning klezmer band he founded in the Baltimore/Washington area. The band has released four albums that all recieved the Washington Area Music Award for best album upon their release. In addition to his activities with The Kleztet, Seth has fronted a variety of swing and jazz groups, including Bay Jazz Project.

Klezmer trumpeter Howard Ungar founded the DC Klezmer Workshop. Howard has been playing klezmer trumpet since he attended his first KlezKamp in 1999 and has attended many KlezKamp, Yiddish New York, and KlezKanada festivals. He is a founding member of the DC based klezmer band Mrs. Toretsky’s Nightmare, who have played at numerous weddings, bar-mitvahs, and holiday events. You can also hear him playing trumpet with the DC based Machaya Klezmer Band at the Washington Folk Festival and other venues around town. 

This event is co-sponsored by the DC Klezmer Workshop

Request ADA accommodations five days in advance at 202-707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov

Find more information at this link!