“A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they’re trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that’s beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they’ve spent years just hanging out with adults and they don’t even have a sense of what it’s like to grow up with kids their own age.” TryingYearsKindChildrenFeelingsMightKidsAgeActorsGrowsGrowing UpAdultsHanging OutPresentationPoiseChild Actors Author:Alessandro Nivola
“Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.” Would BeActorsGrowing UpGrowing Author:Lance Reddick
“It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood.” HomeSeemsActorsGrowsGrowing UpChildhoodNormalFasterInevitableInterviewsEnd TimesSpend TimeClicheAway From HomeTime Away Author:Matt Dillon
“I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.” WantMadeKidsAgeFilmActorsBoysGrowing UpGrowingHollywoodInspiredGoldenObsessedFavouriteDetectivesGangstersGolden AgeTracy Author:Ryan Gosling
“Growing up I was involved in children's theater, so I was definitely on the path to be an actor and a singer.” ChildrenActorsGrowing UpPathGrowingInvolvedTheaterSingers Author:Victor Garber
“I didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types.” KnowsActorsGrowing UpGrowingTypeDadMy DadBuilder Author:Stephen Mangan
“I think my mom is the inspiration of me wanting to do film and TV and be an actor because she loved film so much. She loved, like, horror films and action films, so growing up, she loved watching all the Charles Bronson films and all the westerns.” ThinkingInspirationActionFilmActorsGrowing UpGrowingTvsMomHorrorMy MomHorror FilmAction Films Author:Rick Gonzalez
“I don't even think places like the National Youth Theatre (NYT) are necessarily about wanting to be an actor when you grow up. They're about meeting people from different backgrounds and different religions and different cultures, and mixing with people that you wouldn't ordinarily meet.” PeopleThinkingDifferentCultureActorsGrowsGrowing UpYouthMeetingsTheatreBackgroundsMixingDifferent CulturesDifferent ReligionsDifferent BackgroundsYouth Theatre Author:Ashley Jensen
“Growing up and being a kid, I knew that creativity was at the heart of what I wanted to do. I always had this feeling of wanting to be a comedian and wanting to be an actor.” HeartFeelingsKidsWantedActorsCreativityGrowing UpGrowingComedianBeing A Kid Author:Chris Gethard