Jacqueline Emerson Quotes

I began acting on stage when I was 7 years old. My first role was as Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' at Chicago's Center on Deafness in Northbrook, Illinois.

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

I was an actor who happened to be a kid.

I began acting when I was very young, maybe 5 or so? Just by going to acting classes and that sort of thing.

My brother, Chris Massey from 'Zoey 101', was acting first at a young age. I just followed in my sibling's footsteps.

I was more interested in playing sports than acting. I didn't take acting too seriously until the end of my junior year.

A lot of people didn't realize that I acted before I did anything else.

I started acting before that when I was about 13 or 14.

I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.

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

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.'

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.

I started acting when I was, like, five in monologue competitions at this private elementary school.

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

I've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - I was the evil queen in 'Once Upon a Mattress.'

I didn't grow up as child actor.

I didn't really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, 'Why not?'

I started acting when I was young, and I didn't go to drama school. It was always something that I did alongside going to school and being a normal person.

I didn't always mean to be an actor. I was carried onto the stage when I was two days old, but I never acted as a child. My parents were stage people.

I'd done plays in middle school, done some for the church in high school, but I had no intention of ever being a professional actor.

I got into modeling first, then acting came along pretty soon, and I landed my first role in a Korean drama without education, without any acting experience whatsoever.

I grew up in Sydney, Australia, and I started doing acting classes when I was in eighth grade.

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

I started taking lessons in third grade because I thought it was a fun thing to do. Through my acting teacher, I got my manager. That was about 5th grade. So once that happened it kind of clicked that I probably should pursue acting as a career.

Since I was a child, I've been playing children. When I was little, I was the kid that you'd hire to do the reading or workshop of your new material.