Rasika Dugal Quotes

Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte; I didn't know what I was doing, and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

I am learning the grammar of acting on the sets. And I am happy that way.

An actor has to do everything, all genres of films.

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting.

All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don't have to act it as much, once you've done it enough.

As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is to actually be looking out all the time and watching people.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

I've not taken like acting lessons or anything but it doesn't mean I don't need to because I'm sure I do.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.

I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.

I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.

To be honest, I never went to school for acting, and I never learned to break down a script. I took acting classes my whole life, but they never taught me anything about acting. They just taught me about myself.

Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it.

I love acting classes. I think they're great. It's like working out in the gym. It's a great place to figure out everything that's working and what isn't working.

I want to take acting lessons first. But I'd love to find the right film, a 'Breakfast Club' kind of thing.

Ryerson helped me because I was around acting all the time. It was pretty much all I thought about, even if I didn't really get to practice every day; I definitely thought about it. Actually a lot of it was just sitting and watching, especially in my last year, but I think a good actor learns from everything.