Jaclyn Smith Quotes

I had no idea what it took to be an actor. Then all of a sudden I found myself cast in a TV drama. The director was very harsh with me. One time, he told me this would be my first and last acting job. I seriously thought that acting was not the right career for me.

So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

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

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.

The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

When I was five, I went on my first audition. It was for a Pizza Hut commercial.

For an actor, it's important to choose the right kind of project.

I just wanted to be a working character actor.

I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling.

I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.

My very first acting gig was in a movie for Russ Parr. He did this movie called 'Love for Sale,' and that was my first role in any film.

I try and get out there and audition as much as possible.

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

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.

I was living in Florida working as a model and got my first acting job there in the movie 'Wild Things.' I thought it was sort of cool and decided to do some training.

I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take.

I don't know if I'm going to do any more acting. It's a great job, you know? Make a movie? Why not?

I've always loved acting with adults versus like the whole High School feel.

People really don't understand what actors do.

I have been a bit of a reluctant actress since the get-go, since the beginning of 'Lost.'

I've never been one to book a ton of commercials.

I started acting when I was 13 in New York. Worked there for a couple years, then auditioned for a show there that was going to be filming here. Ended up coming out, getting the job and just staying.

I had been taking acting classes on and off while I was modeling, so I always had a dream to be in a film.