After facing the arc lights for half a century, veteran actress Sharmila Tagore says she has done enough and wants an extended break from movies even though she looks forward to the release of her Marathi venture 'Samaantar' next month.

"I'm not interested in working any more, frankly. Unless it's something really exciting, I don't want to do films. I want to do other things," Sharmila told us in an interview.

"I have been working since I was 16. In fact, I was 13 when I did my first film ('Apur Sansar' 1959) and then went back to school and came back to cinema. Since then, I've just been working. I've done enough. Now I'm happy doing other things and, for that matter, not doing anything. I'm any way quite lazy," said the 62-year-old thespian who looked cool and relaxed in a pair of jeans and a floral shirt at her residence here.

"I love gardening. My garden is my passion. I don't have one here, but I have a huge one in Pataudi. I like growing things there. I also spend my time doing things for NGOs, I'm the goodwill ambassador for Unicef, etc," said Sharmila, who is married to former cricketer Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi and whose son is the actor Saif Ali Khan.

"We have houses in Pataudi and Bhopal; so I keep busy looking after them...If nothing else, taking care of the road outside. Basically, I don't want to work in usual roles any more. I want a definite break," said Sharmila, who was last seen in 'Morning Walk'.

"While working on the film, I didn't have any problems as I used to take the dialogues before. But then there were few dialogues for my role. Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to do it. Because I don't believe you can pick up a language so fast," she said.

After 'Samaantar', Sharmila has just one more movie titled 'Life Goes On' - a bilingual movie by debut director Sangeeta Dutta. In this one too she features with veterans like Girish Karnad and Om Puri.