Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three y… — Hailee Steinfeld

Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.

Hailee SteinfeldActress · American · b. 1996

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