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I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.

— Owen Benjamin

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Acting, I started when I was six and a half years-old, on Broadway with Kurt Weill.

— Billy Dee Williams

I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

— Samuel Larsen

I think I was about seven when people started telling my parents I would be an actor or a performer of some kind.

— Juliet Rylance

I've been acting since I was six. I actually played a boy when I was six in 'Tommy.' I played Tommy and they put a wig on me. They put up my hair and put this little boy wig on me and that was my first acting experience. Then I did some other professional theater. I did Shakespeare when I was older.

— JoJo

I started acting before that when I was about 13 or 14.

— Stephen Dorff

I was one of those weirdos who, at six years old, was telling everybody that I wanted to be an actor. I saw my sister in a play and realized that I wanted to play make believe in front of people; I was always goofing around and putting on shows for my family.

— Chris Wood

I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.

— Megan Gallagher

My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

— Anna Kendrick

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

— Loni Anderson

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.

— Beau Mirchoff