Rasika Dugal Quotes

As an actor, your first priority is the work - immersing yourself in the role, backstory, and bringing that to screen.

As an actor, we have to be so vulnerable that it's really hard to involve yourself with the other aspects of filmmaking.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.

All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film.

The actors I admire are character actors.

I've always been interested in character-driven pieces, and my approach to directing is through acting.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

As an actor, secrets and obstacles fuel the character.

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

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

I think I have a lot to offer doing supporting roles as well.

I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

My first two or three films, all I was trying to do was look cool. That's all I knew acting was.

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.

The most vital thing for an actor to deliver a great performance is to be honest to the role he or she is playing.

I try to choose characters that are very different; I think I have succeeded in that. A big role or a small one does not bother me at all. What matters is that I should have a rapport with the director.

My dream is to produce a generation of actors who realise what the function of an actor in a movie is supposed to be.