Amyra Dastur Quotes

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

I give everything to my work, and I like complex roles, characters that aren't obvious. I've been very lucky so far, and I'm dreaming of working with directors like Jane Campion, Susanne Bier and the Dardennes. But the gods will decide.

I would be daft to say I wouldn't like to try Hollywood. But my main dream is to keep working. Keep loving what I am doing.

I really want to play interesting roles, but you want to work, so it's a balancing game.

In the beginning, I aspired just to make a comfortable living in acting. I still feel the same - it's just that my standards have gone up, so my comfort level is higher as well.

I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to be a model.

I get a lot of girls who say, 'I just want to be a model so badly.' And I think: 'You can do better than that.' I mean, look, I do love it, I'm not saying anything bad about it, I just think you can do a lot more.

After high school, I was going to move out to L.A. and try to pursue my dreams of acting. My parents said, 'That's fine. We support you, but you have to go to school,' which was fine because I'm a studious person anyway; I enjoy it.

People always ask me if I'm going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come.

It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.

I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.

Georgia was a great place to live, but I wanted to get out because I knew the opportunities for what I was doing - stand-up comedy and eventually acting - were in Los Angeles.

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

The reason I haven't had kids yet is because I was so focused on my acting career, hoping I could get something to break.

Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.

Jim Carrey and Steve Carell did dramatic roles. I look up to them. You want a career like that.

There was a time when I wanted to be a lawyer, or even a professional triathlete... But nothing could come close to the passion I have for acting.

Football comes first, but I want to be an actor eventually.

I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.

I'm a big girl. I prioritize. I want to be acting, I want to be singing, but there will be time for that.

I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was....I always wanted to be a movie actor.

In my fifth-grade yearbook - it's right up there on the top shell - the last page says, "What about your future?" and under my name, it says, "When I grow up, I would like to be either an actor, a radio announcer, an impersonator or a comedian."

I did a modeling gig once, but I am not a model. I want to be a model because it's a lot easier than acting.

You make choices, as a young man. I knew I wanted to be an actor, so I pursued that, but the desire to compete still stayed with me.

I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor. But I wanted to be somewhere where there would be no ceiling on what I could accomplish, and I felt like if I stayed in St. Louis I might have a really great regional theater career or something, but that I wasn't going to be able to get much further than that. And it felt like New York and L.A. were the two places where you could end up being a TV star or you could end up doing regional theater, which would have been fine as well.