Eleanor Tomlinson Quotes

I didn't study acting.

My father was a director, and my mother and grandparents were actors, so I spent a great deal of my time as a teenager trying to get away from the theatre.

My father is an actor as well, so I used to look to him.

My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.

I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of my life.

When my oldest brother started acting. From there, I wanted to act myself. That's the long story short.

I've never been trained as an actor. I'm no Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Johnny Depp.

My father was a director, and he used to always tell me, "You should be an actress." When I was 17, he gave me a job so that I'd be in the union.

My nana was an actress, my mom was an actress, and my sister, too. So because I was surrounded by it, it really came naturally.

I grew up around the theatre. My mother is an actress. I would fall asleep on tons of theatre chairs. It's in my blood; it's in my spirit and my fabric of who I am.

I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions.

Well, my brother started acting before I did.

As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.

I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress.

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

I hadn't been to drama school. I hadn't been to university and acted there. I had no qualifications behind me.

I get my love of acting from my dad.

My grandfather, K.R. Balan, a pioneer in the film industry, wanted me to try my hand at acting.

I've never worked with an acting coach, but my parents had acting classes and I grew up around them my whole life just because I didn't have a babysitter.

I was never an actress -- none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.

I never, ever wanted to be an actor.

I've been acting my whole life, which people don't realize. I just haven't had the opportunities that I've had with my dancing.

I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old.