Mara Wilson Quotes - Page 3

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• Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.

  Mara Wilson

  Film, Exciting, Tedious

  “Wilson Vows Never To Star In Another Movie” by wenn.com, April17, 2012.

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• People think I'm smarter than I am.

  Mara Wilson

  Thinking, People, Smarter

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sure, I love to read, and I love to learn, but I was always nerdy that way.

  Mara Wilson

  Way, Love To Read, Nerdy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People like to make children into little grown-ups.

  Mara Wilson

  Children, People, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People seem to forget what it was like to be a child. I think it's partly because they want to forget, because it usually wasn't as good as you thought it was, and so you want to skip over those things, and not have to relate to that anymore.

  Mara Wilson

  Children, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I can't even count how many times I did interviews with people and they asked me if I had a boyfriend. Keep in mind that I was, I guess, mild to moderately famous from ages 6 to 13. Of course I didn't have a boyfriend then. I didn't even have a camp boyfriend then.

  Mara Wilson

  People, Mind, Age

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you're an actor, your body isn't your own. Your body is part of a tool that you use. Everybody else there is using you as a tool, so they have access to those things, too.

  Mara Wilson

  Tools, Use, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius.

  Mara Wilson

  Children, Genius, Prodigies

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted. I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better. I guess I was a philosophical child.

  Mara Wilson

  Children, Philosophical, Adults

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've been accused of being pretentious and insufferable, and I don't really know what I can say about that. I never got good grades in school, but I did read the dictionary for fun. That was just the kind of stuff that I liked to do. I can't apologize for that.

  Mara Wilson

  Fun, School, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I knew I didn't want to put anything down in writing about the first time that I had sex. I knew that I didn't want to do that.

  Mara Wilson

  Sex, Writing, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A lot of child actors think they need to re-invent themselves, especially young women. Usually what they do is they adopt a sort of overt sexuality. It's fine if they want to do that, but a lot of times I think they feel obliged to do that, and that is something that I don't think anybody should feel obliged to express.

  Mara Wilson

  Children, Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People want to bring kids to their level, and they want to make it seem like kids have this thing. It's seen as funny to them.

  Mara Wilson

  Kids, People, Levels

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• David Sedaris wrote in one of his books that people like to make children into little grown-ups, which to him is about as funny as a dog in sunglasses.

  Mara Wilson

  Dog, Children, Book

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I thought I started acting at 5 or 6, it was really when they were interviewing real families for a toothpaste commercial. They interviewed our family.

  Mara Wilson

  Real, Acting, Toothpaste

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When my oldest brother started acting. From there, I wanted to act myself. That's the long story short.

  Mara Wilson

  Brother, Long, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Whereas when I was a teenager, other teenagers didn't want anything to do with me. It was even like that in college to a degree. People of that age don't want anything to do with their childhood, because they had put away childish things, and they're trying to distance themselves.

  Mara Wilson

  Distance, Teenager, College

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Children change a lot in terms of personality. Camaraderie that you feel with somebody might not be there a year later. That group might not have the same chemistry. So I completely understand why they're rushing into it, because they probably feel like they have to.

  Mara Wilson

  Children, Rushing, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I remember my friends and I looking forward to puberty because it seemed exciting at first.

  Mara Wilson

  Firsts, Looking Forward, Remember

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I didn't want to whisper and giggle about [puberty] anymore. I felt incredibly self-conscious. I felt like I was losing myself, and I was losing who I was. And that really scared me.

  Mara Wilson

  Self, Want, Scared

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Puberty was definitely difficult for me.

  Mara Wilson

  Difficult, Puberty

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I would go to the craft services table and have Oreos or whatever, and a grown woman would come up to me and look at what I was eating and sigh and go, "I remember the days when I could eat like that." And I never knew what to say that, because I was 9.

  Mara Wilson

  Oreos, Looks, Crafts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I had so many adults around me reminding me that I was a kid. I also had a lot of adults saying things to me like, "When I was your age..." and sort of idealizing it. I didn't like that they idealized it.

  Mara Wilson

  Kids, Age, Adults

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was very aware of being younger than everybody on set.

  Mara Wilson

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes, I do still act sometimes. But when I do, it's with people I know and trust, people who respect me as a person and appreciate what I have to offer.

  Mara Wilson

  People, Appreciate, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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