“Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.” ActorsChildhoodGood Childhood Author:William H. Macy
“What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre--a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline, complex, circular, symmetrical. However, I do not absolutely deny the value of dramatic literature. Only, I should like the actors to be mounted on high pattens, to wear masks more expressive than the human face, and to speak through megaphones.” ShouldHumansStillsTodayBeautifulFacesValuesActorsFoundLiteratureSpeakChildhoodObjectsComplexesDenyTheatreDramaticMaskLuminousExpressiveHuman FacesSymmetricalBeautiful Objects Book:Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry Source: Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry
“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
“It wasn't my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.” WantMadeHardRunningFilmDiesActorsFantasyChildhoodThievesObscureMidnightBicycle Author:Ben Affleck
“You often hear that people go into show business to find the love they never had when they were children. Never believe it! Every comic and most of the actors I know had a childhood full of love. Then they grew up and found out that in the grown-up world, you don't get all that love, you just get your share. So they went into show business to recapture the love they had known as children when they were the center of the universe.” PeopleKnowsWorldBelieveChildrenShowsUniverseActorsFoundKnownShareChildhoodLove YouGrewGrew UpComicShow BusinessCenter Of The Universe Author:Mel Brooks
“Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.” WellsMomentsActorsChildhoodShipsSkipLollipop Author:Joan Crawford
“It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been an athlete than an actor. This is like some second place consolation prize.” PlayDreamActorsFantasyChildhoodHavensMinesAthleteChampionPrizeConsolationSecond PlaceConsolation Prize Author:Mark Wahlberg
“My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything; it was always, "If you want to do that, fine." When I told my father I was going to be an actor, he said, "Fine, but study welding just in case."” IfsWantSaidActorsFatherParentCasesStudyNiceChildhoodFineReally NiceWelding Author:Robin Williams
“There was one element of my childhood that was really a positive asset for me. By moving a lot, I learned to assimilate into whatever new surroundings I had and to become very comfortable with people quickly. I think that was one of the strongest contributing factors to my becoming an actor, because I constantly had to readjust, even reinvent. But at the same time, it also became very easy for me not to become attached to people, places, or things. I learned to enjoy people and places for the time I had, for the moment, to be in the moment, and move on.” PeopleThinkingMomentsMovingActorsEasyEnjoyChildhoodBecomingElementsComfortableFactorsStrongestAssetsSurroundingsContributing Author:Demi Moore
“I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.” KnowsBookBigsNightActorsParentMy OwnWalksDealsChildhoodLibraryMovieSaturdayBig DealSaturday NightWednesdayWednesday Nights Author:Robert Redford
“There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one in which you lay down. The shadows have been rearranged. There's a sensation of sad sweetness, as if something has been overlooked. I used to feel it coming out of the movies just before dinnertime, after the matinee. How, I wondered, did Broadway actors face it, this bittersweet sense of time's slipping past.” IfsWorldFeelsHas BeensDifferentPastFacesUsedActorsSleepChildhoodStrangeShadowLaysSensationsAfternoonComing OutRecallsSweetnessBroadwayDifferent WorldsBittersweetOverlookedSlippingSleeping In Author:Jacquelyn Mitchard
“My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.” TwoMotherActorsChildhoodProfessorsEarly ChildhoodEarly Childhood Education Author:Matt Damon
“My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think” ThinkingWayMightActorsDecisionChildhoodFedsNomadic Author:Josh Lucas