Mara Wilson Quotes

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

I fell into acting by going to a callback for J.C. Penney with my two older brothers when I was 4 1/2 years old. The casting director saw me and asked to bring me in the room with them. The three of us ended up booking the commercial!

I got my SAG card when I was 10 by starring in a Beenie Weenie's commercial.

When I was a kid, it was a little bit exciting working with Peter Weir and Robin Williams, but that faded pretty quickly for me.

The very first job I did, a Barbie commercial when I was eight or nine, that was like 'Oh my God.' Because when you're watching things on TV, you think it's like a fantasy. But then to actually do it and then see yourself, it's like 'Oh my God.'

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!

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

I have been working professionally in the entertainment industry since I was six.

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

'The Secret Garden' was the first musical that I fell in love with when I was a kid. My mom took me to see it, and it was the first one that I owned the soundtrack to and listened to over and over again.

When I was around 9 years old, I was watching TV one day. I was looking at this commercial, with a kid in the bathtub playing with a rubber ducky or something, and I said, 'Where do those kids come from? How come they get to be on TV? I could do that stuff.'

My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.

My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

I had an amazing childhood.

When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

I was 10, and I played Jim Hawkins in 'Treasure Island' at school, and this great Liverpudlian actor called Andrew Schofield - he was Johnny Rotten in 'Sid And Nancy' - came to watch it, and he had a word with my mum and dad afterwards and told them I should have a go at the Everyman youth theatre. I've never looked back.

My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.

I did my first show in second grade. I was a munchkin in 'The Wizard of Oz.'

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.

I was 16 when I auditioned for the series '8 Simple Rules.' They cast the kids first.

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

Prior to 'The Karate Kid', I did commercials - Kool-Aid, Pepsi, milk - and I had always been cast as the all-American nice guy.

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

I did a Clean & Clear commercial. I did a series of them. I used to be the Clean & Clear girl!