Marla Sokoloff Quotes

I actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well.

Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.

I knew from a young age that I wanted to perform. I went to an arts camp called Brookdale Arts Camp, in New Jersey, from the time I was 6, and then I was a counselor there through high school.

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.

There's nothing like the joy of the arts, and promoting the arts early in children is going to give them such a start in life in a way.

I definitely want to have a career in the TV/film industry, as I love acting, but if it all goes to pot, I want to set up a performing arts school for children with special needs.

The arts have always been in and around my life.

For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

I had gone to the High School of the Performing Arts in New York City.

I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.

I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting.

I have a BFA in illustration.

No one in my family had ever done anything acting-wise or entertainment industry-wise.

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

I was just over high school, and I was kind of artsy.

My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.

I went to Baltimore School of the Arts, which is known for discovering Tupac and Jada Pinkett-Smith.

My background was in performing originally.

Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.

I wanted to be an architect, an artist, or an actor.

I was constantly involved in music and theatre all through middle school and high school.

Fine arts education in public schools is really abysmal. The same emphasis should be put on music, theater, dance - anything creative - that's put on math and science.

When I was in high school, they opened an arts high school. I didn't read music, and I wasn't a trained dancer, so I was like, 'OK, I guess I'll go into acting.' I asked my mom if she knew any plays for my audition, and the only one she knew was 'A Raisin in the Sun.'

I've always surrounded myself with other artists. My close friends, people I've been in relationships with - I went to an arts high school - even my elementary school was arts based.