Naomie Harris Quotes

I've been acting since I was 5 years old, from primary school to secondary school, did training at drama school, which was the big thing for me because they trained me, put me out into the industry.

I was a 2-year-old baby on something, but it's not like I had lines. But I actually had my first lines when I was 4. And then I finished school, and I went to USC for their BFA program in acting.

I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.

I carried on acting during school holidays and was all set to go to drama school when I was offered my first professional job appearing in 'King David' with Richard Gere.

I realized that the actors that I liked and admired all went to drama school and got an agent that way. So I started when I was about 16 in drama school, and then I knew I had to wait until I was 18 so I could go on auditions, and I tried to get into one of the ones that I liked and then go from there.

When I was little, I didn't even know what acting was. But I was in commercials - baby toy commercials like Fisher-Price.

And I've been taking acting classes since I was 7.

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

Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.

I've always wanted to be an actor, but I didn't know how to become one.

I had no idea how to make it as an actor. But I knew I wanted to.

I would advise anyone seriously interested in acting to study, train, and work as much as possible... You will know soon enough if it's the right avenue for you.

When I was seven, I had been very vocal about wanting to be an actor. And my mom decided that we would try it out for a couple weeks and come to L.A. from Sacramento.

It was hard to go into the world and start auditioning as real actors. Having to pay bills was rather scary, too.

I never really thought about acting when I was little; I was just getting a haircut at a salon when I was 10, and a woman approached my mom about putting me forward for an audition!

If you really want to act, I say get in class. Every kind of class. Put as many tools in that tool belt, because once you get out there, the real world doesn't sugarcoat much!

I try and get out there and audition as much as possible.

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

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.

There's a lot of actors out there or people who want to be actors. It's unique to find somebody that, you know, needs to be an actor.

I've been acting since 2002, around about there.

I don't remember ever not knowing about acting.

A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

It always surprised me that I was getting acting work.