Rasika Dugal Quotes

We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves.

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

It is hard for me to be vulnerable, because I never learned how to do that. I was never vulnerable in a safe way.

I just love actors, and I've always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it's easy, and it ain't. To be that vulnerable and brave on camera is tough. The more they reveal themselves, the more we love them, but there's a lot of truth in what they're showing.

Making yourself vulnerable is a key element of leading.

You have to take a leap of faith before exposing yourself completely in terms of feelings and desires - especially if you're a woman.

I have to be vulnerable to allow myself to give the best performance I, and that doesn't stop in between takes, and it doesn't stop when I am finished for the night.

There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details.

Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.

It's very easy for me to play silly, but to reveal something closer to you, that's so much harder.

No one is going to stick their head out of the trenches for someone they don't respect or trust. You can get shot doing that.

Once I wrote 'Atmosphere,' I thought, 'This is my story; it's me and my life and what I've gone through to get to where I am.' I'm not the best singer, but still. All of my albums are personal, but putting myself out there and singing is one more thing that makes me vulnerable - one more thing that people can fire shots at.

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

Real intimacy depends on truth - lovingly told - especially in the bedroom.

I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.

You're used to having a camera in your face when you're playing a character - it's like having a mask on. But when you have to be you, you're so worried you'll make an idiot of yourself. Acting is a kind of escapism.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think.

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.

I just love creating an environment where people can open up and say what's on their mind and in their heart.

It's not easy to sit down and open yourself up and say, 'This is how much I love you,' you know? It's scary to do that.

Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It's always been in my toolbox, there for me when I need it.

I say I'm not shy, but... Acting is a very vulnerable experience, and you've got to be really confident to put yourself out there to be judged.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.