“The earliest influence on me was the movies of the thirties when I was growing up. Those were stories. If you look at them now, you see the development of character and the twists of plot; but essentially they told stories. My mother didn't go to the movies because of a religious promise she made early in her life, and I used to go to movies and come home and tell her the plots of those old Warner Brothers/James Cagney movies, the old romantic love stories. Through these movies that had real characters, I absorbed drama, sense of pacing, and plot.” IfsLooksMadeRealCharacterStoriesHomeUsedMotherReligiousGrowing UpGrowingInfluenceBrotherDevelopmentPromiseDramaLove StoryPlotComing HomeRomantic LoveTwistsPacingReal CharacterWarner Brothers Author:Robert Cormier
“I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.” WayLittlesHardAgeYoungUsedBrotherFingersHearingBirthdayYoung Age60th BirthdayHard WayLittle BrotherTwo BrothersFunny Brother Author:Danica McKellar
“My brother Trev went to the Professional Performing Arts School in New York, and he used to do his monologues and stuff and rehearse in our apartment. So I used to hear him all the time doing these things over and over and over. And when I was a little girl, I used to soak up everything - like anything anyone did, I soaked it up.” LittlesArtSchoolUsedGirlStuffNew YorkBrotherPerformingMy BrotherApartmentArt SchoolMonologuesPerforming Arts Author:Chloe Grace Moretz