“I started acting when I was five years old. I found it randomly, through listening to my brother study monologues. I auditorally started memorizing them for no reason, and started repeating them to anyone who would listen to me. And then, I begged my mom to let me do whatever that meant because I couldn't put into words exactly what that meant. It just meant me happy. And then, when I was 11 years old, I realized what I was doing and I looked to my mom and said, "Can I make this something I can do for the rest of my life?" She was like, "Yeah, sure, if you want to." And I was like, "Okay, great! I think I might want to do this forever."” ThinkingWantYearsSaidReasonMightFoundActingForeverStudyFiveBrotherListeningMomLet MeMy MomI RealizedMy BrotherFive YearsNo ReasonListen To MeFive Year OldsMonologuesMemorizing Author:Chloe Grace Moretz
“I started acting when I was, like, three. My brother was really smart, and he wasnt being challenged enough, so my mom put him in the theater class. And I obviously followed him.” EnoughThreeActingClassBrotherMomSmartTheaterMy MomMy BrotherReally Smart Author:Nolan Gould
“My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother.” YearsBookStatesYoungActingAirPositionBrotherDutyOfficeHundredDignityDollarsAbsenceIgnorantTitlesMy BrotherTerritoryGovernorsSecretaryMajestySalaryGrandeurEighteenImposingEnviedNevadaTreasurer Book:10 Books in 1 Source: 10 Books in 1
“When I was eight years old, I played a story game with my younger brother and sister to help them fall asleep. The 'word-story game' was where they would choose a word and I would create a story. Acting and directing are similar to this game, where I am given the words then I fill in the life of the characters.” YearsCharacterHelpingStoriesFallGamesGivenActingBrotherEightBrothers And SistersYounger Brother Author:Carson Grant
“I like to do stuff for my brothers and sisters to appreciate because they look up to me, and for other kids around the world who want to get into acting or who just want to have somebody to look up to.” WorldWantLooksKidsStuffActingBrotherAppreciateAround The WorldMy BrotherLook UpBrothers And Sisters Author:Kyla Pratt
“The pickings are pretty slim when you have to play the part of a housewife who doesn't go out of her apartment because she's afraid she's going to get mugged, or a woman who turns into her brother, who is a murderer.” PlayTurnsActorsActingBrotherMovieApartmentMurdererHousewifeSlim Author:Shirley MacLaine
“To insult a friend implies that you respect his masculinity enough to know he can take it without acting like a crybaby. The swapping of insults, like the fighting between brothers, becomes the seal of the male bonding.” KnowsEnoughFightingActingBrotherMalesInsultMasculinitySealsBondingSwappingCrybabies Author:Frank Pittman
“My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.” FatherActingTeacherBrotherMy BrotherMentorOur FatherBasics Author:Jeff Bridges
“When my oldest brother started acting. From there, I wanted to act myself. That's the long story short.” LongStoriesWantedActingBrotherLong Story Author:Mara Wilson
“I have lunch with my friend who works for a theatrical agent and her and I were sitting there eating lunch on Sunset Boulevard and a woman who was a theatrical agent drove by and saw me and jumped out of the car and ran up and handed me her card. I had no idea this happens or would happen and I didn't know what to expect out of it. And my brother said alright you better call her and I said alright, why not? So that's pretty much how we got our first agent and then we started taking acting classes.” KnowsFirstsSaidIdeasHappensActingClassSawsCarBrotherEatingSittingMy FriendsCardsAgentsNo IdeaRanMy BrotherSunsetWhy NotLunchAlrightTheatricalActing ClassesBoulevardSunset BoulevardEating Lunch Author:George Stults
“My brother, who's my acting coach, he can be like, "That sucked, Chloe. You need to pick that up. You're not thinking right now. Seriously, think." It's a good harsh reality, because my family keeps me very grounded.” ThinkingRealityActingBrotherMy FamilyCoachesMy BrotherHarsh Author:Chloe Grace Moretz
“It was always acting for me, since I was about 15. My middle brother always wanted to be a news anchor, so we always felt that he'd be the one to take over for dad, so we could go and do our thing.” ActingBrotherDad Author:Patrick Wilson
“I always grew up around acting. I did commercials as a kid and all that kind of stuff and my oldest brother did theatre in High School. It's funny, when I was 15 I had a friend of mine who dragged me away to a camp at Boston University. It was the first time truthfully that acting didn't feel presentational; it felt very personal. I didn't just feel like I was singing and dancing for my friends in High School. It felt like I was doing a scene and all of a sudden I started to feeling something - I started to feel emotional.” KindFeelingsKidsSchoolActingEmotionalBrotherSceneSingingHigh SchoolFirst TimeDancingTheatre Author:Patrick Wilson
“It was my freshman year. I was living across the hall from a girl named Kasey Klepper, whose brother, Jordan Klepper, used to be a big part of Kalamazoo's improv team. Kasey took me to see one of their shows, and my face melted off. I thought, I need to do this... I auditioned, but didn't make the team. So, I took my first acting class, and it opened my eyes to a whole new world. I'd always been interested in performing on some level, but now, I was going to do it. I tried out again and got onto the team, and from then on, I was sucked into the whole theater scene.” WorldEyeGirlActingTeamBrotherScenePerformingFreshmanFreshman Year Author:Steven Yeun
“We were on As the World Turns together with Trevor Vaughn. We played brothers on the show. Our friendship started there. We would punch each other in the face, in the nuts, while we were acting. Our characters are supposed to hate each other, but we actually got along really, really well.” WorldCharacterTogetherHateActingBrother Author:Billy Magnussen
“Ever since I was a about seven or eight; I think it was seven. My brother said "I want to start acting," and me and my sister just said, "Oh we'll try it, we'll see." It was just one of those things - we were just like, "Oh, we'll see what happens." So we ended up - all my siblings and me - we ended up just trying it, and I got that one role on In Plain Sight and then we just decided to keep going and see what happens. And then: Hunger Games.” ThinkingTryingActingBrotherSevenHungerMy BrotherKeep GoingMy SisterSiblingMy SiblingsPlain Sight Author:Willow Shields