Amyra Dastur Quotes

I love the process of discovering a new world - that's why I'm passionate about acting. It's just discovering life, feelings, ideas and thought.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

I think I started out just loving the attention. But that's changed into a real love and passion for my profession. Acting has never lost that challenge and excitement for me.

Acting is fun, and if you enjoy doing it, you should take it seriously and see what you can do.

For me, acting has been my passion.

I love reading and learning. With acting, I get to put all that into my work and still get to do my homework and imagine I can do all these different jobs.

I have realised acting is my heartbeat and my lifeline.

As an actor I can bring the story, the narrative in each performance. If I can't do that, then… might as well give up as an actor, hadn't I?

You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.

I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.

Film and stage are very different; I don't necessarily prefer one over the other. Every few years, I get a big itch to go back to the theater. To learn humility, to learn bravery and to remind yourself that the pistons that drive your craft are working on full power. And to remind yourself how badly paid actors can be.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

I feel lucky to be an actor because you always learn something from each part you play.

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me.

I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.

I think acting is a gift.