Hayden Panettiere Quotes

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

My brother was scouted for a commercial when he was three, and it was just because he could speak clearly and was well behaved, basically. I don't think he had any amazing acting ability at that age - although he is actually a great actor.

I was already blessed to be doing what I have always wanted at 17 - I was an actress.

I made my first stage appearance when I was 6 months old.

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

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

I got my agents right out of school, and I booked my first commercial right away. It was always enough to not quit and do something else.

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

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

I was four when I started modeling. My mom was very much an off-the-stage mom who knew nothing about the business. She married my stepdad when I was about four, and he had been an actor. Because I was a really smiley kid and could read, which is something they're always looking for, she just decided to give it a shot.

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.

I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.

I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.

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.

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.

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.

I was 14 years old. I did an audition for extra work as an actor, with two lines. Suddenly I was auditioning for a bigger role, and then got a part on a Portuguese TV series at age 15. My whole life changed completely.

But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me.

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 in my first movie when I was five. I just loved to entertain and put on a show.

I was, aged nine, the go-to kid in Minneapolis for a commercial voiceover.

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

I made my first movie when I was five.

The little boy, Spencer Breslin, it was just so great to have a kid on set. He is talented, he's a pro. He's been doing this for years, I think he started when he was four or five.

I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.