Amyra Dastur Quotes

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

I am an actor and I don't have any language barrier. If I get a Tamil film, I will learn the language. It's not a problem.

In fact, I learnt Hindi over a period of time after I started doing TV shows.

As I grew, I began learning and speaking a word or two in Bengali and that increased my friends circle.

A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.

I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.

I got into acting classes. I didn't want to just go by luck.

I think when you have to train an accent, it just takes you absolutely into another spectrum of the character.

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.

I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.

I used to watch a lot of American and British television as a child, which helped teach me the language and accents; it was partly that which landed me the part of Roxy in a London production of 'Chicago' when I was 25.

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

When I arrived in L.A., I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult, so I had six months working with a dialect coach, and it's become a habit.

I don't think once you book a part you should stop going to class. I think you should constantly remind yourself that you're working and that you're working on getting better.

Acting has been very useful to me.

I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't know what's coming up for me, my ambition is not to be typecast. So I'm working on my English accent, as well as my American one. I don't want to be like 'Okay, I'm French, and I want to succeed in Hollywood!'

My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually. I'm bilingual, so I had experience with French.

I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.

The riskiest thing I have done in my fifties is to do a Polish accent for a new film. I had a great time working on it and two wonderful people to guide me. A dialect coach that I have known for thirty years and a Polish actor.

I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really cool to do a film in German. I'm not quite fluent, but I can get there. And my accent's pretty good. I wouldn't feel too out of my element.

There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors.