Actor Quote by Nia DaCosta

I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what I wanted…

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell…

— Mike White

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

— Amanda Burton

At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things,…

— Tanith Lee

I started writing stories as a child.

— Danielle Steel

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an…

— Joan Didion

When I was five, I always told my mom I would want to be an actor.

— Rick Gonzalez

In the beginning, I was very stubborn and always wanted to be just an actor. I was told by a lot of people to…

— Kalki Koechlin

I think I have always wanted to tell stories. My mother was the real catalyst. I kept talking about it and so she pulled…

— Kim Smith

When I ask my parents, it's incredibly obvious I was going to have a creative career at an early age. I've been forever telling…

— Sophie Kennedy Clark

I figured out I wanted to tell stories in college. I'm an only child who moved around a lot growing up, and I really…

— Joe Robert Cole

I grew up watching movies and television, and one day, when I was really young, I told my mom I wanted to become an…

— Cameron Monaghan