Nikki Reed Quotes

I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.

I was a very confident child. I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 5.

Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!

I always wanted to be good at something, to be somebody. The minute I got into my first play, which was called ''Excuse My Dust' - I was 17 at the time - I knew that this was what I'd been looking for.

I haven't modelled since I was 12 - that was a one-time thing, and I did it as a kid to make a little money to save up for university. Acting is my first love as well as writing and eventually producing and directing.

I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.

I did a couple of movies when I was little. You have to be possessed to be an actress, and I was not possessed... It was not my life's passion.

Once I committed to acting, this has been it.

My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into.

I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting.

Soccer is my first love. I've been playing since I was 4 years old. I traveled the world doing it. I broke my leg when I was 16 or 17, and acting kind of filled the void.

The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.

I sort of fell in love with it when I was in high school doing theater. And so, as sometimes happens when kids - they graduate high school, and people turn to them and say, 'So what are you going to do with your life?' I thought, 'Well, I like being onstage. I like being an actor.'

I used to get really jealous of Ron Howard as Opie on 'The Andy Griffith Show' - we were the same age. I would just think, 'God, that little kid can work, and I can't!'

My vocation is I do what I do. I'm an actor; that's what I do.

I wanted to act; wherever that was, I was happy. It just happened to be in America for me.

I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.

I think I was born to be an actor.

I am an actor, and that's the most important thing to me. I cannot imagine a life where I would be anything else but an actor, so putting all my energy into a shot comes naturally to me.

I never thought of being an actress, I was always singing or playing on the piano.

Movies were the one thing that I loved my entire life. So I always knew that I wanted to get into acting - I just didn't know when.

The only movies I want to do are the ones I'm passionate about. I care about school, and I'm still a kid. I want to live like that while I can.

I still say I have no interest in being an actor - I just love acting.

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

When I think of my career, I can't help but think of the kid with his ball, falling in love.