Xavier Dolan Quotes

I think the first thing I did when I was a kid was a Maxwell House Coffee commercial with George Strait. And I did a Wrangler Jeans commercial, and then 'The Patriot' came to town.

It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000.

My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.

I did a Clean & Clear commercial. I did a series of them. I used to be the Clean & Clear girl!

I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.

I got my SAG card when I was 10 by starring in a Beenie Weenie's commercial.

I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials by the time I was 6. I must have been a natural, because I never took an acting lesson.

Commercials are art, too; they're 30-second movies starring people like me. If you look down on the medium, you're never going to book. If you don't love it, do not bother. Find another job you like.

My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.

Prior to 'The Karate Kid', I did commercials - Kool-Aid, Pepsi, milk - and I had always been cast as the all-American nice guy.

I did all the Chef Boyardee commercials, in America, when I was young.

Basically, right before college I got into the Guinness book for my feet and started to do local commercials and little radio spots, just little things and found I really liked it.

I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five.

It was like that for the first six months after 'E.T.' was in cinemas. I'd go out and get mobbed. I was a shy kid, and being approached by adults all the time just freaked me out.

I started out doing commercials, like Diet Coke and Pizza Hut. And I started to find there was a different life for me, in a different field. From there, I got a call from a director in Italy, and we did 'Indio' I and II, and that's where it started.

When I started out in Canada, I did a lot of voice-overs and commercials.

I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.

I've been all around the world, and there will be a thousand kids crying out your name, and it's such a weird, visceral experience. It's like, it's disorienting.

And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.

I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five - this was when I was in New York. I then moved to LA when I was 16... but before that I had done a play on Broadway.

Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

I was in 'Harry Potter,' and nobody on the street recognizes me from that. Nobody on the street has ever stopped me from 'Harry Potter!'

I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.

Even though I played national level badminton, I told my parents when I was in 10th that I was not interested in continuing. Being a model or actor fascinated me from a young age, and I even did a couple of ads when I was just eight years old.

To be an icon is a big job - it's beyond acting. And sometimes it pays, and sometimes it doesn't.