Actor Quote by Michael Douglas

My father was so against me becoming an actor.

— Wendell Pierce

I thought people would think I only wanted to be an actor because my dad was, rather than because I had an innate calling.

— Nina Conti

Weirdly, my dad didn't want me to become an actor, he was always quite resistant to it. He told me as much many times.…

— Johnny Flynn

My father was a great actor.

— Stephen Humphrey Bogart

I'd been very certain about not wanting to do the acting thing because of my father. I thought I'd always have the father-son thing…

— Domhnall Gleeson

I appeared in several of Dad's films - at the time, I didn't really appreciate how great a director he was.

— Charley Boorman

When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.

— Mahesh Babu

I kind of hid acting from my dad because I knew what he thought about acting at the time. His advice was "Don't do…

— Christian Madsen

I was always goofing around. I suppose having a father who was an actor made you think that it was a real possibility as…

— Brian Gleeson

My father quite honestly played no role in my decision to become an actor.

— Max Minghella

As a kid, I could not figure out why everyone was running after my father. But when I see him on screen, I see…

— Akshara Haasan

When I was growing up my parents never thought I would be an actor.

— Charlie Plummer