Acting Quote by Charisma Carpenter

I stumbled into acting. My dad, James, was a barrister but he was always very creative and he loved theatre and the arts.

— Eoin Macken

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.

— Edward Burns

I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior college and that's…

— John Corbett

I did some musical theater and studied a little bit of acting as well.

— Kristian Nairn

My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't…

— Ashley Madekwe

I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

— Gaspard Ulliel

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

— Blythe Danner

I decided to pursue an acting career after having had an incredible experience working on a play in high school.

— Pawel Szajda

My very first acting job was with Alan Parker on Angela's Ashes but as a child I had written to so many other productions…

— Kerry Condon

I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I was Drama Club…

— Jenn Proske

I had done some commercial work in junior high and stuff - my mother would bring me into the city, and we'd go on…

— Chloe Sevigny

I came out to California to live with my mom in Orange County for a while, and then I came up to Hollywood. I…

— Jamie Anne Allman