Annasophia Robb Biography

For some actors a career in film seems to be in the cards from the very beginning; such was the case with early bloomer AnnaSophia Robb. The only child of an architect and an interior designer, Robb knew from the age of five that she was destined for a career as an entertainer. A Denver, CO native who never wavered in her determination to succeed, Robb convinced her parents to let her take an acting class before setting out on her first round of L.A. auditions in 2003. It was during this time that her new manager and agent team would help young Robb successfully navigate the Hollywood audition scene, her family living in a modest guest house as her father worked and her mother took Robb to auditions during the daytime hours. By the end of the summer, Robb had attended no less than 42 auditions and had landed her first role as a Bratz-loving Happy Meal fan in a McDonald's commercial. Due to the success of her first voyage west, it didn't take much to encourage Robb to come back to Hollywood in the spring, and after receiving notice that auditions were being held for Wayne Wang's Because of Winn-Dixie, it was time to gas up the car for the long haul once again. Fate seemed to play a curious role during the trip when her father pulled out a stack of librarian-recommended books on tape that he had rented only to find the recorded version of the best-selling Kate DiCamillo novel sitting right on top, and before long Robb was preparing to help bring Dixie to the big screen. Having previously played the lead in the made-for-television movie Samantha: An American Girl Holiday, it didn't take Robb long to find her place in front the camera, and she frequently credits Dixie director Wang with providing the advice she needed to advance as an actress. A subsequent role as bubblegum-chomping brat Violet Beauregarde in the Tim Burton film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory allowed the young actress to cut loose and have a bit of fun on film, and in 2006 Robb could be seen fending off the forces of evil in the apocalyptic horror thriller The Reaping.She had a major part opposite Josh Hutcherson in the 2007 adaptation of Bridge to Terabithia. The next year she had a small part in Jumper, and the year after that she would star opposite The Rock in the remake of Race to Witch Mountain. In 2011 she had the lead in the inspirational surfing film Soul Surfer, playing a girl whose arm was bitten off by a shark. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

• 1. Violet Beauregarde: Let's be friends.
  2. Veruca Salt: Best friends.
  From Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Submitted by Mike R (4 months ago)

• 1. Leslie Burke: I seriously do not think God goes around damning people to hell. He's too busy running all this!
  From Bridge to Terabithia. Submitted by Metavelle S (5 months ago)

• 1. Charlie Bucket: Why hold on to it, Why not start a new piece?
  2. Violet Beauregarde: Because I'd never be a champion, I'd be a loser, like you.
  From Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Submitted by Matthew D (6 months ago)

• 1. Violet Beauregarde: Look mother, I'm much more flexible now.
  2. Mrs. Beauregarde: Yes, but you're blue.
  From Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Submitted by Matthew D (6 months ago)

• 1. Tara: [after she sees him staring at her] Uncle James, you're creeping me out.
  2. Joleen: Hey, you be nice to Uncle James. James, where do you keep the hangers?
  3. James: What?
  4. Joleen: Hangers! God, this place is such a mess. I should have brought some of my own furniture.And we're going to need another pillow for Tara, by the way.
  5. Tara: I'm not sleeping in the same bed as you, Mom!
  6. Joleen: You know, you could really start unpacking your own shit instead of sitting there and pretending to do your homework.
  7. Tara: I'm not pretending to do my homework, I'm pretending not to hate my life!
  8. Joleen: Well, you're not doing a very good job of pretending!
  9. Tara: Well, maybe I'm not applying myself!
  10. Joleen: I don't need this kind of shit from you right now, Tara!
  11. Tara: What kind of shit do you need from me right now, Mom?
  12. Joleen: [kicking a chest of drawers] What do you want from me? God, Tara!
  From Sleepwalking. Submitted by MarieBella C (6 months ago)

• 1. Leslie Burke: We Rule Terabithia And Nothing Crushes Us!
  From Bridge to Terabithia. Submitted by MarieBella C (8 months ago)

• 1. Bethany Hamilton: Sarah's really bumming me out.
  2. Cheri Hamilton: Any particular reason?
  3. Bethany Hamilton: Yeah. So, I told her I'm not coming to Mexico. I mean, she knows that I have two important competitions coming up, right? I mean she knows how much I've put into this, you know, how much you and the whole family put into this.
  4. Cheri Hamilton: So what's her angle?
  5. Bethany Hamilton: That going to Mexcio to help kids is really important. And I know it is, I mean, I really, really wish I could go. It's just... I've got to stay and train for regionals. It's like she's counting on me now, like I'm the only person in the entire world who can do this.
  6. Cheri Hamilton: It's your call.
  7. Bethany Hamilton: Great. Now I feel even worse.
  8. Cheri Hamilton: That's good. A small step in a good direction.
  From Soul Surfer. Submitted by Karen C (11 months ago)

• 1. Bethany Hamilton: What's his name?
  2. Sarah Hill: They don't know. He hasn't said a word, he won't even smile.
  From Soul Surfer. Submitted by Karen C (11 months ago)

• 1. Bethany Hamilton: Surfing isn't the most important thing in life. Love is. I've had the chance to embrace more people with one arm than I ever could with two.
  From Soul Surfer. Submitted by Nusfish K (15 months ago)

• 1. Bethany Hamilton: Love is bigger than any tidal wave or fear.
  From Soul Surfer. Submitted by Nusfish K (15 months ago)

• 1. Loren McConell: What about the boy?.
  2. Katherine Winter: What boy?.
  3. Loren McConell: The boy inside you. We gotta take care of him too!
  From The Reaping. Submitted by Alyssa B (20 months ago)

• 1. Leslie Burke: Just close your eyes, but keep your mind wide open.
  From Bridge to Terabithia. Submitted by Sophia R (22 months ago)

• 1. Opal: You couldn't give up.
  2. Preacher: Opal.
  3. Opal: You give up on everything .
  4. Preacher: That's not true.
  5. Opal: It is true, all you do is give up. You just slip your head back into your stupid turtle shell and give up. You won't talk, you won't go to parties, and I bet you didn't even go out looking for my mama when she left. I bet you just let her run off too.
  6. Preacher: I couldn't stop her, I tried, no, I tried. what you didn't think I wanted her to stay too? She was everything to me.
  7. Opal: You didn't try she wasn't everything to you.
  8. Preacher: Yes she was, Opal, she was everything, everything. I.. I failed her Opal, I tried, and I tried.
  9. Opal: You didn't try! I know you didn't.
  10. Preacher: I tried, I tried and I tried and I tried with everything I had. It's my fault Opal it's all my fault. I'm sorry.
  11. Opal: Daddy?
  12. Preacher: And don't you believe losing Winn-Dixie isn't going to upset me more than it does you, I love that dog, I love him too.
  13. Opal: I love you daddy.
  14. Preacher: I love you too.
  From Because of Winn-Dixie. Submitted by Sophia R (22 months ago)

• 1. Sarah Hill: Hey I just got back from Mexico. I'm so glad you're okay, uh I was just about to come and see you.
  2. Bethany Hamilton: I couldn't wait.
  3. Sarah Hill: Come here. I was thinking about you and praying for you every minute. How are you?
  4. Bethany Hamilton: Uhh... I'm good... yeah. Everyone's been doing really good.
  5. Sarah Hill: You dont have to do that Bethany, not with me.
  6. Bethany Hamilton: Uhh..they're trying to help... I know. I know but...
  7. Sarah Hill: But what?
  8. Bethany Hamilton: You know how you said it's hard to see things clearly sometimes when you're too close?
  9. Sarah Hill: Mhm.
  10. Bethany Hamilton: Well I've been trying to get some perspective. I've been really trying Sarah! How can this be God's plan for me? I don't understand.
  11. Sarah Hill: I don't know why bad things happen to us sometimes but I have to believe something good is going to come out of this. I don't know what that is. I really wish I did.
  From Soul Surfer. Submitted by Sophia R (22 months ago)

• 1. Cheri Hamilton: I like you better that way
  2. Bethany Hamilton: Dad's right, I don't need it to surf
  3. Cheri Hamilton: No you don't. Would it be better to just say it out loud?
  4. Bethany Hamilton: Yea I thought, I thought at least with clothes on, I could have two arms, that I could look normal.
  5. Cheri Hamilton: Normal is so overrated
  6. Bethany Hamilton: But people like normal, mom.
  7. Cheri Hamilton: Who?
  8. Bethany Hamilton: Guys do. I mean who would like me with this?
  9. Cheri Hamilton: The right guy will love you exactly the way you are. Because you're beautiful.
  10. Bethany Hamilton: How do you know?
  11. Cheri Hamilton: Because I know. What's that worth right? Nothing...
  12. Bethany Hamilton: What are you doing?
  13. Cheri Hamilton: We had this statue in my house when I was a little girl. It was a replica from a museum my parents once went to. I didn't think about it til just now.
  14. Bethany Hamilton: The Venus de Milo
  15. Cheri Hamilton: For centuries all over the world she was considered the pinnacle of beauty and she has one less arm than you.
  16. Bethany Hamilton: Yeah, but I can surf.
  From Soul Surfer. Submitted by Sophia R (22 months ago)

• 1. Bethany Hamilton: Go ahead, tell me how everything's going to be okay.
  2. Tom Hamilton: Yea that's me Mr. jump-right-in-and-fix-it, maybe I should just keep my mouth shut for once.
  3. Bethany Hamilton: I'm done, aren't I? I can't even paddle out to the line up passed the big waves. I don't understand, what happened to... I can do all things. Why? Why did this happen? Why did I have to lose everything?
  4. Tom Hamilton: You didn't lose everything Bethany, not even close. That shark didn't kill you, you're here, you're alive, you have your family.
  5. Bethany Hamilton: But what am I suppose to do now?
  6. Tom Hamilton: I don't know...
  7. Bethany Hamilton: Then how am I suppose to know?
  8. Tom Hamilton: When the times right you'll know. You just have to listen.
  9. Bethany Hamilton: Listen for what?
  10. Tom Hamilton: For whatever comes next.
  From Soul Surfer. Submitted by Sophia R (22 months ago)

• 1. Bethany Hamilton: Sarah's really bumming me out.
  2. Cheri Hamilton: Any particular reason?
  3. Bethany Hamilton: Yea, so I told her that I'm not coming to Mexico, I mean she knows I have two important competitions coming up right? I mean she knows how much I put into this, you know? How much the whole family put into this.
  4. Cheri Hamilton: So what's her angle?
  5. Bethany Hamilton: That going to Mexico to help kids is really important, and I know it is. And I really really wish I can go but I have to stay and train for regionals.
  6. Cheri Hamilton: Did you say you'll go?
  7. Bethany Hamilton: Well yea, but that's before I got sponsered, it's like she's counting on me now, like I'm the only person in the entire world that can do this. I mean I'm not going, I mean I can't, right?
  8. Cheri Hamilton: It's your call.
  9. Bethany Hamilton: Great, now I feel even worse.
  10. Cheri Hamilton: Just a small step to a good direction.
  From Soul Surfer. Submitted by Chris G (22 months ago)

• 1. Media Gnat: Bethany! If you could go back to that day, would you not go surfing?
  2. Bethany Hamilton: No, I wouldn't change a thing, because then I wouldn't be here talking to you, I can embrace more people now then I could with two arms.
  From Soul Surfer. Submitted by Caity M (2 years ago)

• 1. Bethany Hamilton: I don't need easy. I just need possible
  From Soul Surfer. Submitted by Jonathan R (2 years ago)