Maria Menounos Quotes

When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.

My mom was an actress, so I got with her boutique agency back in 2001 and started booking a few commercials. She's like my co-manager.

I got an agent when I was 16 up in Vancouver, Canada.

Get yourself into every audition that you can. Even in those for smaller roles, you'll never know when someone may recommend you for a bigger one.

I was modeling with an agency in New York and a manager with the agency introduced himself to me one day and he said he had auditions for someone my age. He asked if I would be interested in doing some.

My dad was a theater actor, so he had an agent, and he brought me into his agency when I was maybe four years old. That was how I started. I started modeling, and it progressed from there.

I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.

Luckily, I have great agents who are sending me out for great stuff.

By the time I was 7, I did walk-ons, catalogue modeling, you name it. In the Queens where I grew up, you didn't go bowling on Saturday; you went to dancing school.

As I got older, I'd say probably when I got to, like, seventh or eighth grade, I was living in Atlanta, Georgia at the time, and I went for an open call for an agent, a local agent out there, a woman named Joy Purvis, and she ended up picking me up.

I got in touch with my agent and told him I wanted to start going out on things again.

I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.

By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.

I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles.

In Australia, getting an audition can be a rarity. There just aren't as many opportunities.

I was asked to model but I never took up the offer.

I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'

My brother's friend worked at a TV station, so we went in; the producer of a show asked if I wouldn't mind taking some photos for his wife, who was a talent agent. Next thing I know, I'm enroute to the agency.

When I was six years old, a children's agent moved in next door to us, sent me out on a commercial audition, and I got the job.

Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.

I'm auditioning for anything that's good that comes my way.

During my whole year as Miss America and afterward, I was calling agents, looking for advice and opportunities. When I was in New York or in Los Angeles doing different appearances, if I had time on my schedule, I tried to meet with executives.

I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.

A lot of actresses start out modeling because it's a great way to sort of get your foot in the door. That's all it is, though. They open the door, and you have to walk through it.

I used to be a model, but acting was never on my mind.