Ian Somerhalder Quotes

My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.

I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver's license, I started driving to Los Angeles, along with my friend Eric Stoltz, who was a year ahead of me and was doing the same thing. So we had the same manager, and we started auditioning for things and doing commercials when we were 16.

I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling.

The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

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.

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

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

I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.

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 favorite commercial I did was my Verizon campaign, which I filmed a series of three commercials. My favorite movie I have done was 'House Under Siege' because it was my very first movie at 5 years old. My favorite TV show I have filmed was 'The Night Shift,' which is one of my favorite shows.

'Angus' was my first real film, but I had been acting for about 3 threes before that as well.

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

I started when I was in 'The King and I' when I was on Broadway when I was nine.

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

I was 12 years old, so auditioning for a TV show was something I didn't even think really happened. The next thing you know, I ended up booking the gig and I did four seasons on 'Emily of New Moon.' I got to learn on the job and kept going from there.

I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.

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

On-camera stuff just hit. I decided to do it to supplement my voice-over career, but I ended up falling in love with it, and it actually hit a lot harder than my voice-over career.

When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and my agent sent me out. It was just a commercial for 'Harry Potter.' That was the first thing I ever went out for and I got the 'Harry Potter' commercial which was really cool, but I didn't play Harry Potter.

I was 28 when I played the role of a 65 year old man in my first film.

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.

When I was in college in Chicago, I was doing a lot of commercials - that was my bread and butter.

I did 'Bridge to Terabithia' when I was around 6 years old, but for my first movie, I was 5.

I did a lot of commercials early on, and I remember the first commercial I ever got was for a product called Funyuns. I had to eat these chips for, like, 12 hours straight.