P. J. Soles Quotes

I started out doing commercials, like Diet Coke and Pizza Hut. And I started to find there was a different life for me, in a different field. From there, I got a call from a director in Italy, and we did 'Indio' I and II, and that's where it started.

I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that.

I started acting when I was 17. I started modeling when I was 13. It helps in the way that you don't get fazed by cameras too much.

The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.

I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.

A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.

I've played a prostitute now three times. I don't know how it's come about that way. It's just a matter of me growing up.

Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while.

Disney has been such a big part of my early career. I've done two pilots for Disney, and I've been working with them since I was 16, and I just turned 21.

My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress.'

When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.

I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.

I never thought I could model, and I certainly never thought about acting. It's just something that happened to me.

I landed about one a year. Just enough to make me question the gas money and all the driving in rush hour. When you audition for commercials, it's a lot of driving. What I netted wasn't exactly matching the hours I was putting in. I figured I'm not a face that makes people want to buy Lysol. Then I auditioned for Progressive.

I started as a teenager going up on commercials.

Modeling is just one of those things that goes along with acting. When it's offered, it's hard to say no, because it's fun.

I signed with an acting agent first; I wasn't really interested in signing with a modeling agent. But that same day, they said, 'You should go over to Ford.'

I played a lot of mothers before I even became a mother. It wasn't like I set out to be some sort of mother crusader.

I was so green, and my background was mostly in theater. The only thing I'd done in front of a camera, besides an infomercial and one commercial, was 'Brothers McMullen.'

I started off in this dreadful, vulgar film called 'The Libertine.' I was just learning. I needed the money.

I was in musical theater when I first started, so there was always both acting and singing. But as far as getting a record deal, that took time. The majority of that time, I was acting.

Well, I kind of did the math in my head when I was like, 9. I was like, 'Well, if I want to make films' - because I want to be a director - 'I could just go on a film set and learn there.' And then I ended up falling in love with acting and the set and making friends all the time. And so I've just been doing that ever since.

Modeling had never entered my consciousness. I was always like, 'I'm going to act.' But I thought, 'If this can help me with that, great.'

When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.