Abi Morgan Quotes

My dad was an actor and a writer; my mum was a drama teacher. My grandma was an actress. My aunt is an actress. My granddad was a cameraman. They would've been surprised if I wanted to be a dentist or something like that.

As much as my parents are part of Hollywood, I have no recollection of them giving me advice about it.

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

If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.

My dad's a lighting director. Growing up in Hollywood, I was around the entertainment industry all the time. I knew I'd end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.

My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about becoming an actress.

I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.

I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.

My own mum cared about Hollywood, and I didn't. I wanted to act, and I loved the creativity of it, but I didn't care for the lifestyle.

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer, and my mom's a director and writer. Even when I was young, I wanted to be an actress.

But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.

My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.

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

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.

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.

I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.

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

My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

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

Like my father, like most actors, I was a pretty ambitious guy.