Rasika Dugal Quotes

You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them.

I think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it.

There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official character.

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

When I step into a character's shoes, I don't judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know?

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.

I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.

There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.

Yes, of course it's fun to play evil, but it's simply fun to play any different characters.

I certainly don't like to play a bad guy. There are no bad people. It's only shades of grey. Also, I am not a great actor who can transform completely into a totally different character for a movie. I am not a trained actor.

Sometimes I'm playing somebody that I may have a problem with. Your job as an actor is not to go only play things that make you look good.

I think, for every actor, the most challenging part of playing a character, specially a real-life character, is to convince yourself that you are the character.

My character should not be ordinary, cliched, and if I feel that it's difficult to do this character, I take up that challenge to get into his character.

As an actor, you can't just imitate someone. You have to get under her skin.

It's very important that I'm approaching a character that I've either not played before, or I can give it a different take.

I empty myself out and fill myself with the character. I would play a devil worshipper, and I would fill myself up with whatever devil worshippers believe. Then, as myself, I empty that out and become Nelsan.

Any decent actor knows you can't judge the character you're playing.

As a writer, you always try to imagine, 'What if I were in a situation like this? How would I react?'

Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you've committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.

When it's a bigger character, and there's a lot going on for her, and there are all these different elements that go into the character, I just love being able to dive into it.

Playing characters I don't relate to are a big challenge for me.

We need to understand the other side to impact the other side. We become much more effective as humans and leaders when we engage in hearty conversations with those who are different from us, not necessarily to change our opinions, but to build the empathy muscle.

It helps to write as the character that I am trying to be, and try to journal every day as them. Once I've already recorded thoughts as this person, it's easier to just flip back through and be like, 'Oh, yeah, this is what she's thinking; this is what she's feeling.'

I want to play so many different characters. I want to, like, understand so many different people, and psychoanalysis, everything. I love that about my job: getting into the character and understanding it and doing the psychoanalysis and creating that character.