Amyra Dastur Quotes

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.

Unfortunately, when you're an actor you have to act. It's not like you can sit in your living room, your bedroom, your study or whatever and act with yourself. It requires having somebody to respond to.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

Acting to me is always reacting.

When you act with phenomenal actors, it makes your job much easier because all you have to do is react.

Working with actors is something I've never done before. I find it tremendous. It's hard work.

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

Acting is acting.

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

Auditioning and actually acting on a set are two different things. When you audition, you're in a room and you don't have anything to play with and you don't have anything physically in the room. Whereas on set, you have direction, you have costumes, and you have other actors to work with. It's a completely different thing.

I like doing a lot of research, and then you get there, you're in wardrobe, and then you're just reacting to what the other person is doing. The other actor is reacting to what you're doing, and it's this great back and forth. Because you've done all this research, you can use some of it or throw a lot of it out. You can get lost in it.

The big secret in acting is listening to people.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

Acting is constant exploration.

I'm more verbal and not as private as I was as a kid. I still do a form of sense memory. It honestly depends on the job. It depends on the other people you're working with, how the other actor works.

With acting, you have to just tell the truth in each moment.

I'm not a trained actor. I surrender to my directors, and they make me act.

I get very excited when I get a chance to work with actors who are as passionate as I am.

Acting is really a give-and-take; it's a dance.

When I do the roles, when I'm in the room and auditioning, I'll ask the director if they're cool with me adding stuff, or just improvising while we're doing it. And I would say, like, 90 percent of the time, they say, 'Absolutely.'

I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.

When you do a play, or even a movie, you have weeks to finesse your character. You really understand why they do what they do. In TV, you get new material weekly about your character.