“When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.” YearsFilmActorsFatherLeftCompanySixSevenUniversityReliefWakingDocumentariesSeven YearsDocumentary Films Author:Sam Neill
“My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.” TwoFilmMotherActorsFatherSawsFourWeekGrandfatherMy GrandfatherBegging Author:Giovanni Ribisi
“I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like I wasn't appreciated as a child so I wanted to prove my worth as an adult, as an actor.” ThinkingLooksChildrenReasonWantedActorsFatherFeltFiguresProveAdultsLook UpAmbitiousAppreciatedFather Figure Author:Jesse Metcalfe
“My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.” ThinkingFirstsWould BeJobsMovingActorsFoundFatherLeftHalfStupidAmountWaiter Author:Alfred Molina
“Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.” MenPlayActorsFatherResponsibleAverageDetermineFather Time Book:Much Ado About me Source: Much Ado About me
“I hated the idea that I would be like my father. Which is one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to be a writer and wanted to be an actor instead. I wanted to go in a total different direction. But, of course, I ended up being a writer anyway.” WantIdeasDifferentReasonWould BeWantedCoursesActorsFatherDecidedHatedDifferent Directions Author:Loudon Wainwright III
“I'm the type of person who is always going to be somewhat dissatisfied with myself. I'm never going to be smart enough. I'm never going to be a good enough father and husband. I'm never going to be a good enough actor for myself. I just never will be, and I have to get comfortable with waking up every day and trying to move some little increment closer to the person I have always dreamed of being. This is the journey.” TryingLittlesPersonsEnoughMovingActorsFatherJourneyTypeHusbandComfortableSmartWake UpGood EnoughWakingBeing SmartDissatisfied Author:Will Smith
“After my last divorce, I said I was absolutely going to marry somebody in another field, an aid worker or something. Then I met Brad, everything I wasn't looking for, but the best man, the best father I could possibly wish for, you know? I don't see him as an actor. I see him very much as a dad, as somebody who loves travel and architecture more than being in movies.” KnowsMenSaidLastsActorsFatherWishFieldsDadMetsWorkersDivorceArchitectureAidsBradBest Father Author:Angelina Jolie
“I'm not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don't need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who's been a father would be able to act.” NeedsHas BeensPlayWould BeAbleOrderActorsFatherBitsAccess Author:Bill Nighy
“My mother and my father had very, very strong Scots accents. We were Australian, and in those days when I was young, I spoke with a much more of an Australian accent than I have now. However I knew that if I went to England to become an actor, which I was determined to, I knew that I had to get rid of the Australian accent. We were colonials, we were Down Under somewhere, we were those little people Over There. But I was determined to become an Englishman. So I did.” PeopleIfsLittlesYoungMotherActorsFatherStrongEnglandDeterminedSpokesVery StrongAccentsAustralianEnglishmenScots Author:George Ogilvie
“My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor.” PeopleIfsThinkingHardEnoughActorsFather Author:Vince Vaughn
“The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or lenient teacher, for the cook or maid, for his own friends, for the rich and poor. Naive and cunning, humble and haughty, gentle and vengeful, well behaved and willful, he disguises himself so well that he can lead us by the nose.” WellsChildrenDifferentMotherActorsFatherPoorRichTeacherHundredHumbleCooksNosesGentleMaskGrandmotherGrandfatherDisguiseNaiveCunningRich And PoorMaidsHaughtyVengefulLenient Author:Janusz Korczak
“The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. You have to learn how to take rejection if you really want to be an actor, he said. He had to eat his own words. I got the job.” IfsWantFirstsSaidJobsMotherActorsFatherRejectionInstructionAuditions Author:Michele Lee
“I understand that actors lose their looks, they change over time, but people don't lose their talent. I think that, as people get older and the people who make the decisions get older, they don't like hiring people much older than them because it reminds them of their fathers, and they don't like telling people older than them what to do. It makes them uncomfortable. I think that happens a lot.” PeopleThinkingLooksHappensActorsFatherLosesDecisionTalentUncomfortableHiringChanges Over Time Author:Kurt Fuller
“I just want to do the best possible job with everything that I do. But I'm far more concerned with being a good father as opposed to being a good actor because that's what's really going to matter.” WantMatterJobsActorsFatherConcernedDo The BestGood ActorsGood FatherBeing A Good Father Author:Mark Wahlberg
“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
“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
“In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born.” ChildrenPlayMotherActorsFatherProcessBornRolesCreativeCreative ProcessPregnant Author:Constantin Stanislavski
“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
“[My father did] advertising. That's why I got into this business. I think because we're really boxes of soap - actors and singers. You're artists, but in the public eye it's a matter of advertising.” ThinkingMatterEyeArtistActorsFatherBoxesSingersAdvertisingSoapPublic Eye Author:Rex Smith
“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
“Harrison Ford is a great actor and he's and lovely man and a great father and all of these things, I got to just meet him as a person and someone I respect as an actor.I'd never seen any 'Indiana Jones' movies or 'Star Wars' movies. My husband made me watch the Indiana Jones trilogy, I just was like fanboy Comic-Con geeked out. It was amazing I didn't show up to set with a whip and a hat.” MenPersonsMadeWarShowsActorsFatherStarsWatchesHusbandLovelyComicHatsMy HusbandWhipsGreat ActorsIndianaGreat FatherTrilogiesComic ConWar MovieStar Wars MovieLovely ManIndiana Jones Movie Author:Blake Lively