At a very young age, I was in Germany watching TV and I…

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

— Anonymous

I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little kids they…

— Denzel Washington

Dad was a retired hedge fund manager who made enough millions to retire and focus on my game. Before that, he was on the…

— Douglas Brunt

My dad had already retired by the time I was born.

— Tessa Blanchard

I was eight when I played St. Joseph, and I told my mom from that moment on I wanted to be an actor.

— Rory O'Malley

“How did the name misfit even come about?" Sam asked. "It's so... dumb." Willo laughed. "Well, it's really not," she said. "We used to…

— Viola Shipman

I'm a working class lad. So at 25, and with no-one in our family having any theatrical inclination, when I said, 'I'm going to…

— Rob James-Collier

As a kid, I was going to be a marine biologist or an actor. When I became successful as an actor, I said, 'Well,…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I found a movie called “Light in the Piazza.” I finally made the movie with Olivia de Havilland and myself, but initially there was…

— George Hamilton

It wasn't like a "I know I wanted to do this," I was sort of just - I was five and my dad kinda…

— Drake Bell

“A good actor,' said Sunay in a light theatrical tone, 'is a man who represents the sediment, the unexplored and unexplained powers that have…

— Orhan Pamuk

I remember seeing Aladdin when I was five or six and loving it. I looked at the big screen and said to my mum,…

— Darren Criss

The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. 'You have to learn how…

— Michele Lee

An actor said recently that, unless you're a parent, you shouldn't play a parent in a film. I don't know who said it, but…

— Colin Farrell

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

— Ted Levine