Jack Davenport Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

Nowadays, kids... young actors... they go straight to L.A. before they've even done anything.

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

The whole celebrity culture is super weird, but I'm part of it for some reason, and you kind of have to be as an actor to be successful.

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

My parents weren't actors or studio executives.

I feel my advantage of coming from a film family is - having seen fame up close, having seen the industry so close and how it works, I was not enamored by fame.

I know what it's like to be brought up by actors and writers.

My family aren't performers. They're just normal people. They don't understand this entertainment world. They just think it's mental. They have no idea what I'm doing in America.

I don't even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?

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.

As I got older, I had a bunch of friends that were various teen stars. I've always known people in the spotlight and people who just grew up in L.A. and had nothing to do with the industry. It's not a glamorous thing to me. It's just a different type of business.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.

I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that.

A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.

You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.

I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star.

I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.

I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals.