Amyra Dastur Quotes

I did 'Bridge to Terabithia' when I was around 6 years old, but for my first movie, I was 5.

If you go back and watch 'Saw,' I was very young. I'd never really done anything before.

I was only 18 years old when I started acting.

I started out doing commercials, like Diet Coke and Pizza Hut. And I started to find there was a different life for me, in a different field. From there, I got a call from a director in Italy, and we did 'Indio' I and II, and that's where it started.

I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.

My brother, Chris Massey from 'Zoey 101', was acting first at a young age. I just followed in my sibling's footsteps.

I was editing for Kunal Kapoor when I got my first film 'Jaan Tere Naam' as lead actor.

I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.

I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that.

I was working at a restaurant in L.A. when a producer came in. He said I should audition for this movie 'Cellular.' I did, and I got the part. It actually makes me sick to tell that story because it's obnoxious.

My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't have an agent at the time, and it kind of threw me into real acting.

The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances.

I was scouted at the age of 10 by a Hollywood agent. I was a really shy, geeky-looking thing, and started in the industry by doing 'extra' work on films.

My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.

Disney has been such a big part of my early career. I've done two pilots for Disney, and I've been working with them since I was 16, and I just turned 21.

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

When I started as an actor, I kind of started with a couple features. I've been waiting for the opening.

I got into the acting business very young.

I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46.

I wasn't one of those girls who always dreamed of being an actress. I went to a normal school and then these film auditioners turned up when I was nine. Then I just fell into this whirlwind.

My first movie role was a supporting performance in a Canadian film called 'Final Lady.' It was a great opportunity for me at the time.

'Apocalypse Now' was my craziest experience ever. I was 14 years old, and I'd lied about my age to get the role. I haven't had another film top it.

'Naked' kind of kicked me off into the film world. It just so happens that all of the things that I have been offered have been films, and I've enjoyed the travel that goes along with that.

I was very young when I became an actor: I was 19 years old.

I think what happened to me was I was so lucky to have made 'Secretary' so young. It's unusual to be given an opportunity to express yourself as an actress that young and that thoroughly.