Entertainment Background Quotes

I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'

I started with superhero stuff - 'X-Men' and 'Spider-Man' and 'Batman' and 'Hellboy' - but I wasn't familiar with 'The Strain' until I started the show.

Both my uncles were in bands, my grandpa was a comedian who wore clown makeup on stage.

My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.

I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.

I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'

I grew up in a very music-loving home with a lot of records, a lot of TV, a lot of radio, a lot of video - VHS cinema, basically.

I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do odd jobs on films like 'Labyrinth' and others... I seemed destined to make films.

I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.'

The first job I had was a Pampers commercial. And I used to go with my father whenever he would do a performance. I remember clinging to his legs, saying, 'Please. Take me with you.'

Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.

I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.

Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on 'Saturday Night Live' as the head writer the first year we started it.

I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.

I used to have a radio show. That's how I started foolin' around with recording.

As a matter of fact, when people ask where my 'point of view' comes from, it was there in one of the first sketches we wrote for [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis.

I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.

You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!

Well, actually, I did start out in comedies. Very, very early.

I always wanted to be on the radio. But my background is more entertainment than journalism.

I don't think what people realize is I've been through years and years and years of training - piano, dance, vocal lessons.

Dude, I've played almost every position except for President. When I did 'The Event,' I was head of the CIA. When I did 'Chuck,' I was head of the NSA. For a guy that's a hippie at heart, I don't know where they think of this.

I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.

I have friends who have no choice; they came from whatever town, they didn't have anybody in entertainment and they just knew they wanted to act and they did it.