Amyra Dastur Quotes

I'm always really excited to try something new in my profession that I haven't done yet.

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

I don't ever want to get too comfortable in my career or life. My nature is such that I'm always looking for new challenges.

I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.

It's important to keep reinventing yourself, and I want to challenge myself at every age.

I did modelling for five years, then I felt I wanted to do something different and challenging.

I like challenges, and thus, I keep trying something different and new every time. And these challenges and interests turn into passion.

You need to reinvent yourself every day when you are doing creative work. I always say that the moment I feel I'm at the top of the mountain and I cannot do more, I would be finished. So that's why I always feel the earth quake beneath my feet. I always feel myself on the fire. Because I think this is something that gives you the right adrenaline to work and go forward in your professional life. I have reinvented myself, believe me, many times in my life!

I didn't think there was life after modelling, believe me. It's a hit to the ego when you are not the diva on the set any more. But I think what keeps me going are challenges. I love when people tell me I can't do something.

I feel like I learn something from everything I do.

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

I have to reinvent myself.

There's nothing more addictive or incredible in life than reinventing yourself and allow yourself to be different every day.

Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.'

We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.

It's really important to me to keep growing and keep finding new things.

I've always wanted to broaden my horizons.

I still take acting, singing, and dance classes. I think no matter where you go in your career, you can always learn more and better yourself.

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

I'm always looking for a way to give myself something new as a person.

I think you need to do something new to keep reinventing yourself.

I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.

In next five to 10 years I probably would have done my best work, but I was afraid of having another 10 or 15 years ahead of me and feeling stale, so this was an opportunity to reinvigorate myself.

I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.

I think it's important for an actor to see the work they've done because every time you revisit a work you come up with a new way of improving it. It's a good way to brush up your craft and your skills, so I think it's a good thing to do, keep seeing your films.