Childhood Quote by Jasmine Cephas Jones

My dad was a theater actor, so I would follow him backstage. And my mom was a casting director. The moment I heard the…

— Christian Slater

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

My parents were not at all backstage parents. We had none of that in the family. It was just very clear right away that…

— John Michael Higgins

My father was a director, and my mother and grandparents were actors, so I spent a great deal of my time as a teenager…

— Marianne Elliott

My mom was a theater teacher and helped me out a lot as a kid when I was starting out.

— Peyton List

My dad's a lighting director. Growing up in Hollywood, I was around the entertainment industry all the time. I knew I'd end up in…

— Meghan Markle

I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a…

— Marion Cotillard

My mom, who was a constant fixture at work with me until I was 18 years old, did an amazing job filtering out all…

— Kellie Martin

I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.

— Saoirse Ronan

Growing up as a child actress, I was tutored on movie and TV sets.

— Kyle Richards

Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.

— Paul Newman

The first long chapter of my career was almost entirely theater so that, by the time I was 30, 35, I sort of knew…

— John Lithgow