Actor Quote by Jean-Pierre Leaud

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

When I started, my mother was already an actress and I wasn't keen on being one.

— Supriya Pathak

My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and…

— Daniel Radcliffe

I was in drama, wanted to be an actor.

— Joan Jett

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an…

— Matt Damon

My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't…

— Aaron Douglas

I wanted to be an actor ever since I was five. My grandparents - my mom's parents in New York - were stage actors.…

— Lydia Wilson

I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could…

— Octavia Spencer

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least…

— Giovanni Ribisi

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became…

— Barry Levinson

My mum's father was a producer and her mother was an actress, so my mum was fully behind me going into acting.

— Charlotte Ritchie

I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.

— Alicia Keys