Soha Ali Khan Quotes

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.

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.

I didn't grow up as child actor.

A lot of my friend's mothers and parents worked at Paramount Studios, so I would always go. I met the Fonz when I was really young, like four or five years old. I was always around people in entertainment all the time throughout my whole life.

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.

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

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.

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

I don't have any friends who are actors through my dad.

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

I probably wouldn't be acting if I didn't grow up in Hollywood.

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.

Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.

I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.

I grew up on movie sets and traveling the world with my pops.

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.

When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.

My own aunt was Merle Oberon, so movie stardom was not a faraway mystery to me as a child: it was part of the family business.

My parents weren't actors or studio executives.

Both my parents are actors.

I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.

The only benefit of my dad being in the film industry was that I got a reality check right from the start. I wasn't delusional and didn't want to be an actor just for the glamour.

I have nothing against the film industry, but my mom asked me to do anything but act.

I went through a brief phase when I thought of other career options: being an air hostess and even a psychologist. But eventually, my destiny led me to acting. Moreover, my dad being an actor, I have grown up in a very filmi environment. I was encouraged to watch films since I was a child.