Quotes from Rasika Dugal

I really enjoy watching animation films and I have always been curious about how such well-established actors in Hollywood lend their voices to animation films.

Talking about your work all the time and to open up, you have to do all that. I have begun to find my fun in that as well.

Our family get-togethers are about the stories such as my uncle who walked across the Indo-Burma border, or a woman who gave birth in a ship carrying refugees etc.

In Bombay, people usually tend to cast you in roles that you've played before. Even though they may consider you to be a talented actor, they just think it's 'safer' to have you play the same kind of roles over and over again.

It is nice to have a lot of people watch your work but I really have thought of it as not the goal of my career but a bonus in my career.

It is exciting to see the different genres that audiences want to watch. The response to a show like 'Mirzapur' last year and to Delhi Crime earlier this year was so encouraging and a proof that good content is the new formula.

I am a serial class taker. I take classes for anything and everything!

Nothing is more important to me than the work itself. If I feel I am getting swayed too much, I take a step back... My focus is also on the performance.

In fact, it is more interesting to play someone whose politics is not in sync with my own politics because then I have to understand a different kind of mind and that becomes more interesting as an actor.

I am enjoying the abundance and variety of work on the web.

The kind of scripts I have read for web shows have been outstanding.

There is room and time for multiple tracks to flesh out in the web space. I enjoy this format.

Salaam Bombay' and 'Monsoon Wedding' are the two Mira Nair films I go back to.

A well-written character is one where you don't know in which direction it's going; the character could spring a surprise any moment.

As an actor, it is my job to prepare for the role I am playing.

But, as an actor, the role that I enjoyed, in terms of really understanding and appreciating this profession, was Anoop Singh's 'Qissa'.

When you disagree with somebody else, they often tend to get very defensive. But that doesn't stop me from doing the kind of work that I want to do.

Filmmaking, it has been my first love.

Very often when we talk about war, conflict or terrorism, we talk about it very politically. We forget that there are people involved.

The best option that you can have as an actor is pure instinct and you should be able to protect your instinct. Information can either cloud your instinct or aid it.

I don't have much foresight, and I think that's an asset for an actor.

Of course, I'm open to all kinds of genres. In my head, there are no demarcations.

The biggest quality of good actors is that they know how to respect their co-actors, whether they are as big a name as them or not.

Film is my favourite without a doubt. I am a film romantic and I love the grandeur of cinema. Dark theatres and big screens are my first love.