Rasika Dugal Quotes

Often, if I read a story and I'm moved, I have an understanding for a character and I don't really know why.

Good characters don't believe they're bad. As long as you as an actor believe in them and try to understand them, it's not hard to have empathy and sympathy.

I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.

Sometimes I think to get to the emotional level of a scene, you don't necessarily have to have experienced the exact thing that person has experienced, but whatever you have in your life that has gotten you to that place is usually enough.

I like all my characters in one way or another, or at least I understand them.

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.

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?

When you are playing someone who is dealing with issues on a really personal level, if you don't bring your own issues into the equation, it's not going to feel really personal to the people watching it.

Most actors will tell you this - I don't really know how to connect, empathize with, or make worthy of any revelation a character that doesn't have love in there somewhere, that doesn't have an idealism or an empathy in there somewhere.

When I prepare for a role, I try to get inside the character's head and understand him.

The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.

I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.

Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.

When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.

I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.

I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.

It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to.

I took a psychology class, and I think the study of the mind can help me further my acting ability. It's also taught me about getting into an environment with new people and acting like you've known them forever.

I am sensitive to life, and somehow acting comes to me. I can't explain it.

To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.

I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious - but it's to breathe the character and get into the psychology of it.

I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it.