Javed Jaffrey Quotes

The first film I was in was called 'Straight Time.' I was five-years old, and I was playing my father's son.

'Superbad' was my first movie, but I've been acting since I was seven.

I was in my first movie when I was five. I just loved to entertain and put on a show.

I didn't grow up as child actor.

I started doing movies when I was 14.

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

My first film as an actor was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films.

I was scouted at the age of 10 by a Hollywood agent. I was a really shy, geeky-looking thing, and started in the industry by doing 'extra' work on films.

I always wanted to be a filmmaker, but I started acting when I was 9 years old. I looked a certain part that I wasn't, really. I played, you know, a high school jock with a lot of attitude or a spoiled rich kid, and I was neither of those things. I was from a very working-class family in Van Nuys.

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

When kids were busy playing at the age of 11, I was singing for the heroine of 'Shastra.'

I got started as an actor when I was 12.

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.

My first movie role was a supporting performance in a Canadian film called 'Final Lady.' It was a great opportunity for me at the time.

I wouldn't even call myself a former child star. I was a child actor; there's a difference.

Christopher Lloyd was actually the first person - or certainly one of the first few - who ever spoke to me on film.

I cannot forget the day when I gave the first screen test of my life. The film was Gulshan Rai's 'Trishul' and I was selected. I was just 16.

I was a child actor, so when I started filming when I was five years old, it was a long time ago.

I really started acting when I was 12 when I was doing this television show called 'Jack & Bobby.'

I played the young Reese Witherspoon in 'Sweet Home Alabama' when I was 7, and the boy who played the young Josh Lucas was 10.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home.

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'm from L.A. I'm an actor. I'm a flake.

I grew up in Middle America and I don't think my family was very funny, but I watched 'The Princess Bride.' I always wanted to be an actor. I didn't know anything about it. I'd never seen any plays or anything and I watched that movie over and over and over again.