Shiri Appleby Quotes

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

I am the youngest of four children - three boys and one girl. I don't think becoming an actor had anything to do with seeking attention, though. My relationship with my siblings when I was growing up was close and playful.

My childhood was as conventional as you could get.

Subconsciously, there was always an actor inside me. But while growing up, it was a very normal childhood because my dad never got films to the dining table and never discussed films.

In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.

I'm from a big family; I have four younger siblings. My parents are still happily married together. I grew up moving around a lot, and my family was certainly not affluent.

I did my first show in second grade. I was a munchkin in 'The Wizard of Oz.'

I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brother, David, and an older sister, Betty. My father Fred worked in the mills as a textile weaving supervisor, and my mother, Mary, was a housewife.

Yeah, I started when I was 6 years old. My brother and sister would get all of these presents at Christmas time from the cast and crew of their show and I was jealous. So I decided that I had to become an actor.

I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in 'Les Miserables' and 'The Sound of Music,' and my mum's an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn't find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping.

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.

It took a lot to get attention in my family. No wonder I'm an actress.

I grew up with a younger brother, so I can get pretty rowdy.

I did a show when I was two, but I didn't start acting as a child. I wanted to go to school every day and be with my friends and really have that experience.

It's not the easiest thing to have two actors in a family.

I grew up in a family with five kids.

I like a full house because it's how I grew up. I'm one of six children.

I'm the youngest of four. I have two older sisters and an older brother and was raised by a single mother. Basically, my household was just full of life. Everything was lit all the time.

I grew up as the youngest child in a big, noisy family, and there was always someone around to hang out with.

I did my first play around four or five. I can't remember the first one, but I did 'Annie' when I was five.

My overwhelming memory of my childhood is the constant busyness in the house. I am seventh out of eight kids - five boys and three girls - plus my mom, Ruth.

My life was filled with family in South Sudan. I am the seventh of nine children, and we grew up in what would be considered a middle-class family. We did not have a lot, but we did have more than a lot of other people.

I'm the youngest of six kids, and I grew up with a lot of noise, a lot of music, and a lot of laughter.

I was the youngest of five, and I think my mother always knew I was meant to be an actress.

My mother enjoyed acting as well with my father, who used to direct her in plays at his regiment. My sister is an excellent singer. However, it was only me who decided to pursue acting as a career.