Mackenzie Astin Quotes

When my oldest brother started acting. From there, I wanted to act myself. That's the long story short.

If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.

I love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'.

I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could walk in and meet them, and they would interview you and select you.

I grew up on a set and saw my family doing it and thought, 'I can do that too.'

There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.

My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl.

I would love to do a movie.

As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.

There's a lot of magic involved in movies that as a child I really appreciated. So I love bringing my son to set. It reminds me of what I loved doing as a child, and also, as an actor, you have a lot of down time.

Who wouldn't want to be involved in a movie?

I got into the movie business because of 'Days of Heaven.'

The first time I ever went on set was during 'Fiza' when I was in Class X.

I was into movies before my graduation results got out. In fact, I was on location of a movie when they came.

I decided to become an actor at five. I saw the most gorgeous woman that I had ever seen in my five years of living on television. She had on a long, red dress and her eyelashes looked like butterflies and I said, "Grandmamma, who is that?" She said, "Baby, that's Lola Falana." I said, "That's it right there. I want to be black, fabulous, and on TV."

I watched how happy broadcasting made him. And if you're close with your parent and you see they're happy doing something, it's only natural you want to follow in their footsteps.

My dad had a board, and my older brothers windsurfed. I just wanted to do what my brothers did. I was seven, I think, and I was like, 'Can I go, can I go, can I go?,' and I've never turned back.

My family, especially my mother is my biggest strength. She has helped me through so much in life.

I always talk about my dad because he was a coach, and I became a coach.

My mom loves music and it poured into my childhood.

I'd love to make a horror movie, that's definitely where I want to be one day.

I want to do movies.

I like making movies and would like to make it my career when I'm finished playing football.

The idea of working in films came after I passed class ten. I was planning to set up a restaurant and manage a business.