“Getting that debut film is definitely harder than someone who has got ...” — Amyra Dastur Quote

“Getting that debut film is definitely harder than someone who has got a known last name. I mean some star kids don't even audition.”

“When you are a pan-Indian actress, you are doing films in different languages and invariably, you end up not signing films in one language or the other for a brief period.”

“Acting is about reacting, and it's not easy to do that when you don't have a good co-star.”

“I did some acting in high school and then a little more in college, and it just was the thing that I felt that I wanted to do more than anything else. And then I was fortunate enough to audition for and get into Yale Drama School right after college, and I spent three years there.”

“If you only live in the world of the actor, and if you only live in the world of auditions, etc., then you don't really have a whole lot to offer when it comes to playing the humans that you're trying to audition for.”