Jared Gilman Quotes

In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

I've been acting since I was six years old, but not professionally.

I was an actor who happened to be a kid.

I think acting is my destiny. I did my first film when I was just eight. However, I never took that role seriously.

I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

I was working in Chicago, in theater and in commercials and anything that anybody would let me do. When I moved to L.A., I had made a choice to be a character actor, meaning that I wanted to become somebody else. That's what attracted me to becoming an actor in the first place.

I was an assistant director for a year, and I realized, 'God, this is a lot of hard work. This is going to take time. So what's the shortcut? What's the better option?' Then thankfully, someone said, 'Why don't you become an actor?'

I've been acting since I was 7, and I always knew it was what I wanted to go into.

I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.

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 don't think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old.

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

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.

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

I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.

I thought I'd be doing theater, really. That's all I had experience with growing up. I mean, I saw movies and television, but I don't think I really connected at a young age that that was acting, that that was part of the profession.

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.

My first acting role as a kid was on 'Freaks and Geeks.'

It was never a plan to be an actor.

I've always acted; in fact, I can't remember a time when I was not. When I was little, cinema was a game, then my father's job and now mine.

I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in acting, and I had been doing school plays. A couple of years later, I called him up, and I started auditioning.

I was lucky enough to get a very good agent at the age of 15, and got my first film when I was 16, so it's been rolling on since then.