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I Started Acting When I Was Five Years Old. I Found It Randomly, Through Listening To My Brother Study Monologues. I Auditorally Started Memorizing Them For No Reason, And Started Repeating Them To Anyone Who Would Listen To Me. And Then, I Begged My Mom To Let Me Do Whatever That Meant Because I Couldn't Put Into Words Exactly What That Meant. It Just Meant Me Happy. And Then, When I Was 11 Years Old, I Realized What I Was Doing And I Looked To My Mom And Said, "can I Make This Something I Can Do For The Rest Of My Life?" She Was Like, "yeah, Sure, If You Want To." And I Was Like, "okay, Great! I Think I Might Want To Do This Forever."

-Chloe Grace Moretz

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I Started Acting When

Chloe Grace Moretz

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I Started Acting When I Was Five Years Old. I Found It Randomly, Through Listening To My Brother Study Monologues. I Auditorally Started Memorizing Them For No Reason, And Started Repeating Them To Anyone Who Would Listen To Me. And Then, I Begged My Mom To Let Me Do Whatever That Meant Because I Couldn't Put Into Words Exactly What That Meant. It Just Meant Me Happy. And Then, When I Was 11 Years Old, I Realized What I Was Doing And I Looked To My Mom And Said, "can I Make This Something I Can Do For The Rest Of My Life?" She Was Like, "yeah, Sure, If You Want To." And I Was Like, "okay, Great! I Think I Might Want To Do This Forever."

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