Gaten Matarazzo Quotes

I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.

When I was 8, my dad asked me if I wanted to audition, just for fun. I did just a little short film, and I liked it. I just kept doing it, and then I started getting bigger auditions for bigger roles.

I think 99 percent of actors have gone through severe rejection before they ever landed a single role. I probably auditioned for 100 projects before I was cast in even the smallest role.

I actually love auditioning because I usually don't get the part. I've tested with Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Tom Cruise. So I've gotten to that point, and I understand when I don't get it. There are a lot of very talented people out there.

When I was little, my mom was an actress, and she still is now, and she'd go on commercial auditions, and if they needed a mom and a son, she'd take me along, and that's how I got started.

You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.

I began acting when I was very young, maybe 5 or so? Just by going to acting classes and that sort of thing.

Acting is a tough business, but if you really want to do it, you should go full force.

You know, when you start, especially with me, I didn't really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater.

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

In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.

I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.

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

I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.

I started taking acting classes when I was twelve.

I had been asked to start going out for roles here and there throughout my career, but I know that acting is a hard thing; it takes a lot of work, and I was traveling. I didn't have the time to really focus on it, so I really waited for the right project to come along.

I've been acting since I was 8 - I used to play hockey and there was a kids' theatre down the street from my house and one day I just walked in and signed up for auditions for 'The Wizard Of Oz.'

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

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

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

I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions.

I never lost my appetite for acting.

When kids were busy playing at the age of 11, I was singing for the heroine of 'Shastra.'

I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.

I got started as an actor when I was 12.