My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I…

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least…

— Giovanni Ribisi

My father told me, "Don't do anything that would bring shame to the family." I was always mindful of that. When I told him…

— George Takei

As a kid, I could not figure out why everyone was running after my father. But when I see him on screen, I see…

— Akshara Haasan

When I was about 12, I came home from middle school and told my parents I wanted to be an actor. My father didn't…

— Richard Jenkins

After working for a couple of years, I have realised how much hard work it takes to become an actor, and my father has…

— Tiger Shroff

My mother says I was two and a half when I first mentioned I wanted to be an actor. My father said, 'The word…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

I always wanted to be an actor. My father inspired me since I was three years old.

— Bobby Deol

When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.

— Mahesh Babu

My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on…

— Johnny Cash

“Poetry speaks slowly. My mother told me that. We are usually too much in a hurry.”

— Susan Meissner

From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life…

— Michael Lee-Chin

“as his mother told Grandma Marie, there are no words for some”

— Chris Abani

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

— Tanith Lee

My mother told me stories all the time... And in all of those stories she told me who I was, who I was supposed…

— Paula Gunn Allen

“It’s a choreography of sorts: some birds, her mother once told her, dance before they mate.”

— Dan Vyleta