Actor Quote by Loudon Wainwright III

My father was so against me becoming an actor.

— Wendell Pierce

I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.

— Jonathan Evison

My abject hatred of actors and the acting world. I went to college as an actor, and halfway through, I switched to playwriting and…

— Christian Finnegan

I always wanted to be an actor. My father inspired me since I was three years old.

— Bobby Deol

I knew I didn't want to pursue an academic career at all, which, of course, my father would have loved me to have done.…

— John Hurt

Growing up I didn't want to be an actor. I sort of didn't want to go into the family business; the main reason being…

— John Lithgow

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer, and my mom's a director and writer. Even when I was young, I wanted…

— Troian Bellisario

I never had a moment of wanting to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress, but writing was just a thing I…

— Sarah Pinborough

My father, God bless him, thought it was such an impossible desire to be able to make a living the way I do. I…

— Nick Tosches

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

Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.

— Robert Gottlieb

I wanted to go to college to be a journalist and follow in my dad's work. And then I became an actor.

— Lana Condor