Books Quote by Francis Ford Coppola

My father is a visual artist, so I was influenced by him, and my mother is an English teacher who forced me to read…

— Taika Waititi

I think the sense of performance and theatre was in my blood very early - but my father was more involved in music and…

— Carol Drinkwater

I grew up in the theater, went to school for directing and playwriting.

— Jerrika Hinton

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

— Bill Walton

I went to school for theater and English literature.

— Ryan Serhant

My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books,…

— Sarah Dessen

From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was…

— Athol Fugard

I started to do theater when I was a little boy at school, and then, I think because my father was a documentary filmmaker…

— Daniel Bruhl

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

— Christopher Durang

I grew up doing a lot of theatre, plays, dramas, musicals.

— Hale Appleman

My grandparents - both of my mother's parents - were actors, and they ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company, through the town of Reading,…

— Kate Winslet

As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a…

— Tom Glazer