“I always revered people that I thought had an idea and proceeded through with it. I guess I've been that way since the day I called my father and told him I was going to study acting and maybe try to see if I could do well with that, and he told me: "Don't do that. You don't want to do that, that's just dream stuff. Get a legitimate job and move forward."” PeopleIfsWayWantTryingWellsIdeasDreamJobsMovingFatherStuffActingStudyMoving ForwardIf I Could Author:Clint Eastwood
“My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.” FatherActingMusicalTheatreSingersRealisedBaroqueOlder SisterMusical TheatreBaroque Music Author:Antonia Thomas
“My father's ashes are not yet interred.strangely, I find the fact that he isn't properly laid to rest helps me when I'm doingthis play.” PlayFactsHelpingActorsFatherActingHelp MeAshes Author:Lynn Redgrave
“On the day we filmed the scene, a bee stung me. I screamed and cried so much they called a doctor, and my father said, "It can't hurt that badly!" But it wasn't the pain that upset me, it was the thought that I mightn't be in the film. Already the little professional.” LittlesSaidPainFilmActorsFatherHurtActingSceneAmbitionDoctorsUpsetBeesCried Author:Natasha Richardson
“More broadly across time and cultures, it seems, one perennial piece of advice to father has been the importance of acting tenderly toward their children. The New Father, it turns out, is an old story.” ChildrenHas BeensStoriesSeemsTurnsCultureFatherActingPiecesAdviceImportanceNew Father Author:David Blankenhorn
“When I first began acting, I assumed an intellectual responsibility attached to my profession, which I had accepted for a long time. My father taught me that an actor had to have a social and political conscience, and that the work that he does has to reflect from that.” FirstsLongDoePoliticalActorsFatherSocialActingResponsibilityTaughtLong TimeIntellectualConscienceProfessionAccepted Author:Christopher Reeve
“This means that if a person fulfills his or her vocation as a steelmaker, attorney, or homemaker coram Deo, then that person is acting every bit as religiously as a soul-winning evangelist who fulfills his vocation. It means that David was as religious when he obeyed God’s call to be a shepherd as he was when he was anointed with the special grace of kingship. It means that Jesus was every bit as religious when He worked in His father’s carpenter shop as He was in the Garden of Gethsemane.” IfsMeanPersonsSoulFatherJesusWinningBitsReligiousActingGraceSpecialGardenShopsVocationAttorneyShepherdsCarpenterEvangelistsHomemakerGethsemaneKingshipSoul Winning Author:R. C. Sproul
“Having grown up in the theater family, having done a huge amount of acting from a very little boy to precocious teenager in Shakespeare festivals that my father produced, I went off to college and fell in with the theater gang. I was already an experienced actor. I became a kind of campus star. I heard all this applause and laughter.” KindLittlesDoneActorsFatherStarsActingBoysHeardCollegeHugeAmountLaughterTheaterTeenagerFestivalsGangApplauseLittle BoysCampusPrecociousOff To CollegeTheater Family Author:John Lithgow