Actor Quote by Carrie Coon Download Open image “I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people.” — Carrie Coon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Actor Grow Grow up Knowing Names Parenting Parents People Theater Theatre Up Were
I don't think I even called myself an actor until I went to college and studied acting. — Myha'la Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
When I was growing up my parents never thought I would be an actor. — Charlie Plummer Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up wanting to be an actor, and I didn't go to acting school. — Paul Schneider Copy Share Image
I don't even know if people are familiar with my name as an actor. It's not as if I ever was an über-famous actor. — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the first place. — Condola Rashad Copy Share Image
Even though my parents were famous actors, I honestly felt most of the time that I didn't understand what was going on. — Sean Astin Copy Share Image
My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident. — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater. — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which I was… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
I think women have long been defined by their roles as procreators and wives, and we're expected to serve, take care of, say 'Yes,'… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
There's a lot of ambiguity in life, and so often, our art is very neatly wrapped up at the end, when our lives never… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
I'm from a family with five kids in it, and my father almost became a Catholic priest. And my mother never went to church,… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
It's much harder to act poorly written material. It's much harder to memorize poorly written material. — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
I rely on poetry or literature to keep me centered before I go onstage because it reminds me to be present. — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
Parents always stay older than you, but sibling sort of become adults together, and that complicates that relationship, I think. — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
What's great about good writing is that it feels like life, so it's not hard to relate to her circumstances. — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
Part of being an actor is the rhythm of the life of being an actor, and that involves coming together with a group of… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since. — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
There has got to be a way for me to have a role on TV or in film that is just as normal as… — Adeel Akhtar Copy Share Image
I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I auditioned for the theater school, and I was there for four years. In the meantime, I did my first… — Ana de Armas Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in… — Annie Potts Copy Share Image
Actors don't hate acting. Most people don't hate acting! Whether you're a child mucking around with your friends or a grown up being paid… — Liv Hewson Copy Share Image
