Child Actors Quotes - Page 2

• I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home.

  Charlie McDermott

  Children, Home, Pennsylvania

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• I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that.

  Mara Wilson

  Children, Actors, Want

  "'Matilda' Star Mara Wilson On Why Some Child Actors Lose It". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. June 10, 2013.

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• I was a child actor, so when I started filming when I was five years old, it was a long time ago.

  Hiroyuki Sanada

  Children, Years, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• I felt a gravitational pull to the material so that there's a certain element of acting that's not really necessary. I've really liked this in foreign movies before or I've observed others working with them and I've noticed that there's a method that goes on where the actors try and get the children, like the child actor, to interact with them in a real way. It seems like you're the adult trying to get the kid to fall in love with him.

  Brendan Fraser

  Falling In Love, Children, Real

  "Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser Interview EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES". collider.com. January 17, 2010.

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• I don't know if child actors are necessarily more screwed up than most people.

  Rider Strong

  Children, People, Actors

  "25 Questions for *Boy Meets World'*s Rider Strong". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.vanityfair.com. May 3, 2011.

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• I went on to host a kids' program from when I was around 10 until 15. In some ways I'm a child actor.

  Michiel Huisman

  Children, Kids, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There was not an industry for child actors. I never really made any money. It was all about fun for me.

  Michiel Huisman

  Children, Fun, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had a hard time at school because I worked, so I was quite often out of school, which meant that I didn't make many friends. It can happen to child actors, because you're not in the school environment. And I did miss that school environment and being around people.

  Yasmin Paige

  Children, School, Hard Times

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I had great parents, and they trained me well and instilled great values in me. They also taught me common sense about money and that I couldn't count on the good fortune of doing a show forever. Therefore, I never spent money I didn't have and didn't end up destitute like other child actors.

  Ken Osmond

  Children, Common Sense, Parent

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• I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.

  Ashley Johnson

  Children, Thinking, Horror Stories

  AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. August 2011.

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• My memoir is being published by Beaufort Books and will be available fall of 2015. Its about my unusual life as a child actor and how I made the unpopular choice to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

  Lisa Jakub

  Children, Growing Up, Book

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• After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.

  Lisa Jakub

  Children, Years, Careers

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• Some kids are fine, but often I don't like what I see in child actors. My kids are young and they are already showing an interest, so I have to try to discourage them, squash that in them.

  John Leguizamo

  Children, Kids, Squash

  "Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There's an infantilization that happens to actresses in general - musical theatre, straight theatre, television, film - we're spoken to like children. Actors are spoken to like children a lot of the time.

  Laura Benanti

  Children, Musical, Theatre

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It's very hard to find a good child actor. There are a lot of child actors out there, especially in America, and they're cute kids, but most child actors appear on sitcoms where their main role is to be cute and make funny little remarks.

  George R. R. Martin

  Cute, Children, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what its like. I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing Memory. I was terrible. Terrible.

  Emilia Clarke

  Girl, Song, Children

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• People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination kicked out of them by life experience and adulthood. So, they still are very much alive with that kind of magical thinking which enables an actor to believe they're in these circumstances and make them real to you.

  Nicolas Cage

  Children, Real, Believe

  "Knowing - Nicolas Cage interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• If I had a child actor, I would wish for it to be in an Adam Sandler movie, because he just comes in and makes them so comfortable and is so brilliant with them and they all go home and they that they've got this special relationship.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Children, Home, Special

  The MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. June 19, 2006.

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• Unlike me, a lot of child actors are very short, which is why they work. So when they're 15 they can play 11 or when they're 18 they can play 14. They look young for so long, they have abilities a much younger kid wouldn't have.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Children, Kids, Play

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• I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.

  Harry Melling

  Children, Careers, Actors

  "Harry Potter's Dudley Dursley is all grown up! Actor Harry Melling shows off weight loss at new movie premiere" by Lara Martin, www.mirror.co.uk. February 19, 2017.

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• That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes away their childhood and puts untold pressure on children.

  Dwayne Hickman

  Children, Childhood, Add

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• Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.

  Morgan Brittany

  Stars, Children, Careers

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• I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.

  Dick Van Patten

  Children, Actors, Radio

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• I think it's important that when people are struggling, that you not run away from them if you love them. Kristen, I mean, I look at the room tonight, you know, Kristen Stewart and Claire Danes, Jennifer Lawrence, all these young women that I worked with who basically were child actors like I was a child actor. And then I feel very protective of them, because even though I think I have managed to get through the process relatively sanely, I have my scars, and I hope to be in some ways a member of their family that's out there protecting them.

  Jodie Foster

  Running, Children, Struggle

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• I've never fancied that footballer lifestyle. I suppose I could live that kind of flash life. People stereotype child actors and kind of expect you to go off the rails a bit, be a bit crazy, but that's not really happened yet. I've got a big family so that helps, and they live really close to the studios so it's just so much easier.

  Rupert Grint

  Children, Crazy, People

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