Saoirse Ronan Quotes

I've been on sets my whole life.

When I was 16, I was in a film called 'The Patriot.' I spent every second I could on the set watching the director and his team bring America circa 1775 to life. From that moment on, I was hooked.

I didn't have the regular high school experience. My experiences were on sets.

I was in 'The Postman Always Rings Twice' with Jack Nicholson. That was fun. I think I made, like, $33 or something. I got to miss a whole day of school, and when you're a little kid, that's cool.

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

I've been fortunate to get involved with 'Short Term 12.' I was just a young teenager on the Internet, clicking on anything that had the word 'actor' in it. One day, someone called me in for a movie audition.

I like being in movies that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It's a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work.

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.

For me, I've always taken being on a set as my school, because I've been working since I was ten.

I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.

I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.

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

Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.

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

I worked in SRK and Salman Khan's films as a child artiste, so Bollywood has always been on my radar.

When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.

My aunt Julie was a production manager, and she heard of an opening. Some show was looking for children to run around the house or whatever. I auditioned and got the part, and I showed up in all of my monstrous energy, bouncing everywhere like an electron.

I stepped in for Nicole Kidman in 'Dogville' when she left that film.

When I started doing movies, every crew member was older than me.

I was there for the making of Young Winston, but guns kept going off. I went 'Waaaaah,' and someone said, 'Please get the child off the set.'

I want to write a studio movie, but probably one that's for me to be in.

My mum sent me to an open audition for 'Notes On A Scandal' so I could see quite how many other girls wanted to do this. And I queued up, and I got the job. That was my first-ever audition, and my second was 'Atonement.'

I went to an ordinary primary school, and then I started performing in a show called 'Billy Elliot' on the West End, and that was sort of my drama school.

My parents are in the business - they're actors - so I kind of grew up on a film set, which was a funny place to grow up.