Age Quote by Anna Kendrick

Well, I grew up in Maine, so it was an unlikely place to start. But my parents were really, really cool about supporting what…

— Anna Kendrick

I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13.…

— Kate Hudson

My parents were reluctant to let me start auditioning until I was at least a little bit emotionally stable - I'm still working on…

— Zoey Deutch

When I was 8, my dad asked me if I wanted to audition, just for fun. I did just a little short film, and…

— Kodi Smit-McPhee

I started acting when I was about nine. I always wanted to get into acting since I was really little but my parents would…

— Josh Hutcherson

I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.

— David Copperfield

I was 20 when I moved to Los Angeles. I went on probably 600 commercial auditions and couldn't book any of them.

— Dax Shepard

I was five when I did my first show with the Mountain Play Theatre company in Marin County. I started young, and since no…

— Claire Coffee

When I was 9, I auditioned for an arts school in Toronto with a few of my friends. The sole reason we auditioned was…

— Jake Epstein

When I was growing up, I didn't do plays in downtown Boston, and my parents weren't putting me in auditions. They never thought, Oh,…

— Mindy Kaling

I never really thought about acting when I was little; I was just getting a haircut at a salon when I was 10, and…

— Danielle Campbell

I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.

— Jesse Eisenberg