Elizabeth Olsen Quotes

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.

My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.

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.

I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.

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

All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.

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.

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

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

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

No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.

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

Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress.

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

I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.

My daughter's wanted to be an actress since she was six years old, but I didn't want her to go through the same experiences as I did as a child actor.

I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people.

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.

Well, I'll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I'll go to LA and try out for films there.

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.

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.

When I went to drama school, I thought that everybody would think I was only there because my dad was on TV.

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.

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

We weren't a Hollywood family. We were simply a show business family.