Pia Wurtzbach Quotes

I didn't grow up as child actor.

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

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

My dad was a theater actor, so he had an agent, and he brought me into his agency when I was maybe four years old. That was how I started. I started modeling, and it progressed from there.

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

I did my share of kid acting, like lots of us do. I even played King Herod when I was 6, but when I got to the end of my school period, that was it.

I wasn't a child actor. It was just three weeks of my life when I was eight.

When I was 13, my mom checked me into a modeling agency. Then, out of nowhere, they asked me to audition for a TV show, which I did, and I got going from there.

I started when I was three years old, doing commercials and Modeling in New York, I liked it so much that I kept doing it.

I remember someone saying to my mom that it must be so glamorous to have a child acting in movies. They had no idea how hard it was for her.

Even though I played national level badminton, I told my parents when I was in 10th that I was not interested in continuing. Being a model or actor fascinated me from a young age, and I even did a couple of ads when I was just eight years old.

I started modeling, doing the Sears catalog kind of thing, then did a lot of commercials when I was growing up.

I started working when I was very young. I got an agent when I was 12, and fortunately was employed consistently from that point on. So I didn't really go to a conventional high school. I was tutored on sets and things.

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.

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 parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.

Right after I left drama school, I had a job.

I'd never done anything as high profile or professional as 'Skins', so 'Skins' is where I've started.

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

Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.

If you're small and can speak clearly and you're a cute kid, that's the craft, really. The whole child actor thing can be dangerous sometimes. Other kids were taking piano lessons; I did ballet and acting.

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

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.

It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.

I was not a child star. I was more like a young auditioner.