Mara Wilson Quotes

I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

My family was artistic and encouraged me to express myself. I was a show-off, so they took me to ballet class.

My parents were definitely encouraging with creativity.

I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.

My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems. She was scared of letting me go. So, she home-schooled my siblings and I, and she was desperately trying to find something for me to do for an extracurricular. She was trying to socialize me, so she put me in community theater, and I was instantly taken by it.

My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into.

As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways.

When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.'

Performing has always been something I wanted to do. My dad had a video camera and I loved being in front of it.

I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.

You know, my parents, they raised me to be a fighter.

I'm the youngest of five kids, and I wanted attention. And in Santa Barbara, there was lots of theater going on, so for that area, it was a little bit like playing Little League baseball. There were dance classes, theater classes, and I just loved it.

My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.

As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film.

I never had vocal lessons, dance classes, or any of the things my peers had.

When I was a child, I always wanted to be funny and to please people in my family. As you grow up that instinct becomes more refined, but it's still there.

As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing.