Did you always know you wanted to become an actor?
The acting bug bites at different times for every performer, but many are compelled at young ages to enter show business. If you’re one of those thespians, here are 10 actors who feel the same as they describe their childhood acting passions.
“I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I’d beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, ‘Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.’” — Zooey Deschanel
“I always wanted to become an actor. My parents knew I was an outgoing child, and whenever people came over, I’d automatically do impressions of them as soon as they left. It was my mom’s favorite thing.” — Leonardo DiCaprio
“I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.” – Sam Elliott
“I was really uncomfortable in my own skin, and so if I got to be someone else, there was something so liberating about that. I really loved superheroes, and so I always wanted to be one.” – Jessica Alba
“I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids, or cursed kids, who always knew what he wanted to do.” — Tim Mathson
“I always knew that I wanted to work, and I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actor. I knew that every choice I made would help me get to that point. So the better the choices I made, the more of a chance I would have to get to where I wanted to be.” — Lea Michele
“I grew up in Wisconsin. It’s not like growing up in New York or L.A. where you know somebody’s cousin who does this. It was in the back of my mind, but I would never say that I wanted to be an actor. But as I look back, I was in every play I could possibly be in.” — Bradley Whitford
“I wanted to be an actress before I wanted to be a singer. But I couldn’t make it as an actress; I was bad at auditioning. I never got a job.” — Lady Gaga
“When I was a kid, I was really interested in acting, and I started doing some theater in school plays. I was living 45 minutes outside of Manhattan, and I wanted to segue into doing something on a professional level.” — Paul Wesley
“I knew from a young age that I wanted to perform. I went to an arts camp called Brookdale Arts Camp in New Jersey from the time I was six, and then I was a counselor there through high school.” — Melissa Rauch
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