I remember running up to my dad and saying, 'I want to be an actor when I grow up!' And him saying, 'Yeah, well we'll talk about it.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I was five, I always told my mom I would want to be an actor.
My mother and father raised their eyebrows at first when I said I wanted to be an actor because I was in this industrial city. My dad had done a bit of boxing on the side, but he was a welder first and foremost. I was 17, and I said, 'I want to be an actor.' They worried it was a waste of time.
I came out of my mum's stomach going, 'I want to be an actor!'
I told my extremely conservative, uber-traditional Korean father, 'Hey, Dad, I know what I want to do for the rest of my life. I want to be an actor.'
When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, 'I think I heard you say lawyer.'
I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.
I thought people would think I only wanted to be an actor because my dad was, rather than because I had an innate calling.
When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.
My dad was an actor, so he would try and put me off and say, 'Come on, you've got to go to university first.'
My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.