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

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

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

But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt comfortable with them; I felt like myself. I decided to go to drama school based just on that feeling. I had never done any acting.

What I love is a good role. In the theatre, there is just a canon of extraordinary roles, the quality of character is amazing, but I also love working in front of a camera. It was the first one for me; as a kid I was in front of a camera. I feel at home.

I started taking acting classes when I was twelve.

I've acted since I was 5 years old, so that's still something I want to do.

Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.

I was five when I did my first show with the Mountain Play Theatre company in Marin County. I started young, and since no one in my family was involved in the industry in any way shape or form, I think everyone thought I'd do a few plays and that would be it. But then I kept doing it.

I don't know what I would have done without acting. I officially fell into it around age 6 in a class play that reimagined 'The Ugly Duckling.' My joy in performing was so boundless, you would have thought I'd just won a Tony.

I was acting since I was a kid, going to drama classes and being involved in every school play and musical that I could get my hands on, so it was something that was a part of me from a very early age.

I started acting when I was seven, so I've read my share.

I've been acting since I was 11.

My first audition ever was for 'Bye Bye Birdie' in fifth grade.

I'd always wanted to act - since I starred in 'Alice in Wonderland' as a girl, that was it.

I first started stage acting at the age of four when I joined a local Stagecoach group.

I didn't have any desire to be an actor until right before I did it.

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

I had the acting bug from a very early age.

An actor is only merchandise.

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 did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.