Child Actors Quotes - Page 3

• I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.

  Fergie

  Children, Kids, Actors

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• Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place.

  Danny Bonaduce

  Children, Lucky, Actors

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Kids kill a show! It's, like, a fun concept when the character is pregnant, but then if a show runs for a while, I'm sorry, but it gets annoying when it starts to talk. You get a child actor in there, and unless that child actor is freakin' awesome, it's going to be annoying.

  Eliza Coupe

  Running, Children, Sorry

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers.

  Mike Lookinland

  Children, Real, Different

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• My daughter's wanted to be an actress since she was six years old, but I didn't want her to go through the same experiences as I did as a child actor.

  Ricky Schroder

  Daughter, Children, Years

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• My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.

  Mae Whitman

  Cute, Mom, Children

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - "I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!"

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Stars, Children, Hollywood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some people manage to make that transition from child actor to adult actor seamlessly. But I felt that if I spent my whole life on a film set without taking a few years to do something else, all I would ever know about was film sets.

  Anna Popplewell

  Children, Years, People

  "Interview: Anna Popplewell on growing up in the Chronicles of Narna films". www.mirror.co.uk. June 26, 2008.

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• A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they’re trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that’s beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they’ve spent years just hanging out with adults and they don’t even have a sense of what it’s like to grow up with kids their own age.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Children, Growing Up, Kids

  "Soul Man: Alessandro Nivola in Janie Jones". Interview with Kristin McCracken, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2011.

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• I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.

  Roddy McDowall

  Children, Unhappy, Actors

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• I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'

  Zooey Deschanel

  Mom, Children, Parent

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• Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

  Jodie Foster

  Children, Actors, Tough

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• The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Children, Taken, Long

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• It's difficult being a child actor. I don't think everything beautiful has to be exploited. Some things can be beautiful and left beautiful.

  Ricky Schroder

  Beautiful, Children, Thinking

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• I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

  Christopher Walken

  Children, Actors, Performers

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2004.

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• Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child.

  Denzel Washington

  Children, Actors, Wonderful

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• At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.

  Morgan Brittany

  Growing Up, Children, Teenager

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• I have a career I am proud of as a child actor. I'm not running away from it or embarassed with anything I did.

  Ricky Schroder

  Running, Children, Careers

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• I credit my mom Debbie for creating a solid family base, ... She gave me a strong sense of reality so I could avoid falling into the normal pitfalls of child actors.

  Elijah Wood

  Mom, Strong, Children

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• I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Children, Confused, Acting

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• Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.

  Asia Argento

  Children, Thinking, Directors

  "Wild child" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2005.

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