Rasika Dugal Quotes

For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.

I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.

They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general.

I would love to act in films if people think I am right for a particular role.

I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.

For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

When I was doing 'All in the Family,' half the time, I was looking at where the cameras were, where were the other actors in the scene, what the audience was doing.

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

'Scandal' has been, for me, the most consistent time I've ever logged in front of a camera. I grew up in the theater, and I feel very confident and comfortable on the stage and in front of a live audience, but the camera is a very different medium.

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.

That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.

So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally.

I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.

I read a script and I know immediately whether that role is for me or not.

They did cast me as an ingenue once, and the novelty was nice. But I said, 'There is nothing here to play!' I really like getting into the meat of a role.

I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.

I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

If you're not acting, you're not an actor.

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.