Jenna Ushkowitz Quotes

I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!'

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.

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

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

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

When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being a ham. An agent was there and she was telling me, 'Hey, do you think you'd want to go out on auditions?' I was like, 'Yeah, what's an audition? Sure, I'll do it.'

The first interview I went on I got at age 5. It was a commercial for First Federal Bank.

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 went on to host a kids' program from when I was around 10 until 15. In some ways I'm a child actor.

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

I'm good at cold reading; I've made a living doing this, and most of the time I do audition, but it's very tough. It's a very uncomfortable, awkward process. You never get used to it, really.

I have been doing commercials on camera since I was ten.

I was 17 when I auditioned for 'Miss Saigon.' I really grew up doing that show. I pretty much knew, almost a year into 'Miss Saigon,' that I was going to be a performer, that I was going to be singing and acting.

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

I've been in the entertainment industry since I was five and it has always been something that has been in my blood.

I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five - this was when I was in New York. I then moved to LA when I was 16... but before that I had done a play on Broadway.

I grew up in the business since I was three years old so I've always kind of been in front of the camera and grew up in commercials and I knew that I wanted to do it no matter what, I just loved it.

I've been working as an actor since I was 9 years old.

I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.

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.

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

I got an agent when I was 12, and I started working in more amateur productions well before that. But even as a kid, I never felt like a kid actor, you know? I always took myself kind of absurdly seriously.

I have a career I am proud of as a child actor. I'm not running away from it or embarassed with anything I did.

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 earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.