Claire Danes Quotes

I think acting is my destiny. I did my first film when I was just eight. However, I never took that role seriously.

I started theater when I was three, and I started doing professional acting when I was nine.

When I was younger, I always was like, 'I want to be a serious actor.' I wasn't interested in doing a Disney show or a Nick show. But here I am, and it's great.

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.

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

I was five or six when I joined SAG, and Equity I joined when I was nine.

I've been working as an actor since I was 9 years old.

I've been acting since I was 7, and I always knew it was what I wanted to go into.

The first interview I went on I got at age 5. It was a commercial for First Federal Bank.

My career as an actor started when I was six years old, taking dancing lessons. Then I started getting paid jobs to dance at the age of seven.

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.

I never saw myself as an actor. I neither had the looks nor the backing required to be an actor.

In all honesty I think that I've had a very normal life, even though I've been making movies since I was 9.

I never wanted to be an actress, really. I sort of caught the bug fairly late. So many people are so intrigued with the glamour and celebrity of acting, and a lot of actors start acting when they are 9 or 10 years old - so young. I started when I was about 24.

I actually never auditioned for 'Full House.' I had done a guest appearance on 'Valerie' as the next door neighbor's niece, and from that I got into 'Full House.' I was only five years old, and I was on the show until I was 13.

When I was two and a half or three, my mom got a call from someone asking if wanted to go on an audition. I ended up getting the job; it was a commercial for Hasbro. It was my first audition and first commercial. I just had to smile and laugh and dance around.

My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.

My daughter's wanted to be an actress since she was six years old, but I didn't want her to go through the same experiences as I did as a child actor.

I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.

I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.

To be honest, it's considered very late to start acting at 11 and a half, for the industry. Most kids are doing it from toddlerhood on.

I guess I was a child actor. Acting was one of the things I did alongside going to school: I'd be playing guitar, I'd be playing soccer, and I would be acting in movies.

I feel like I came to acting late in a way.

It was never a plan to be an actor.