Acting Quote by Shannon Lee

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

— Saoirse Ronan

My dad said, 'If no one was giving me acting work, I'd have to be prepared to create it myself.'

— Domhnall Gleeson

My dad wants me to do action. Every time I go home, he asks me if I'm doing an action film or not, because…

— Sunny Singh

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 told my father I wanted to act, and he stared renting all these classic films for me to watch.

— Emory Cohen

That's the whole reason I got into acting: I don't do this like some grown-ups have to do it, because they have families, and…

— Fred Savage

It wasn't like a "I know I wanted to do this," I was sort of just - I was five and my dad kinda…

— Drake Bell

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?

— Corbin Bernsen

I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your…

— Jeff Bridges

My mom always liked the idea of us acting - me and my sister - like, one of us trying it. But my dad…

— Matt Prokop

I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

— Samuel Larsen