James Badge Dale Quotes

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. And now it's kind of become a way of life for me.

When I think of my background, if I was privileged on any level, it was in terms of the kind of exposure to experience and bohe-mian cultural influence that my parents and my uncles and my grandfather gave me. On both sides I come from an extremely eccentric, artsy, intellectually intense, activist family.

Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

I came from a real working-class show business family.

They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.

You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.

I come from an artistic family. My dad's an actor, my mother's an actress, my sister's an actress. So I kind of grew up in that kind of environment. Oddly enough, I never really knew about my parents' work. I've seen small clips of it, but we never actually spoke about the business.

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

My upbringing as a child was very atypical.

My parents were in the theater so I was always somewhat surrounded by it.

I had a bit of a strange childhood, to be honest.

I was brought up in a bohemian household where my dad plays guitar and my mom plays piano just because they love it.

My mum's father was a producer and her mother was an actress, so my mum was fully behind me going into acting.

My dad was one of the original members of the Groundlings, and I watched him as an actor have ups and downs, and I watched my mom as a casting director have ups and downs.

Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, blue-collar environment 40 minutes outside of New York until I was 11.

I grew up around really not-normal people. My family is general Hollywood. They're all artists; they're creative people who are advocates for expressing themselves. But I also have to say I'm not impressed with Hollywood.

I actually was brought up by an Airedale. I don't really remember my parents, especially my mother. It was only the dog that I saw.

My roots were in acting. That's all I wanted to be. Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

There's nobody in my family that's in performance or in the business in any way, so it was not something that was encouraged as a profession. It was more just encouraged as a personality trait.

I never knew a regular childhood, but I was always surrounded by love.

I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.

Yeah, I guess for years I wanted to be an artist, and when I was growing up, lots of my family were artists, so I was kind of surrounded by that world. Then acting came along, and I loved it immediately.

I don't come from any type of entertainment. I come from a basketball family. My dad still says, 'Trevor, are you sure don't want to play basketball? You can play in college and go to the NBA!' But I did play.

My father was a very popular singer and stage actor during his time, in the 1950s. But he didn't take any formal lessons in music, which was probably why he insisted I study music so I could get a proper base and build a strong career in it.