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Mara Wilson, born on July 24, 1987, is an American actress. She began her acting career at a young age and gained widespread popularity for her remarkable performances in several well-known films. Her notable works include the 'Home Alone' series and 'Little Women'.

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“I've never considered myself cool, and I don't think I ever will be. Honestly, it's better that way. It's much less pressure.”

Thinking Way Pressure Honestly

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“I'm surprised by how much I remember [on childhood on film]. I think it's just because I had these interesting moments. Of course, you never know when they're interesting moments, but there was a lot of stuff that I remember and have attached significance to later. I remember enough. I remember highlights.”

Thinking Knows Enough Moments Remember Film Courses Stuff Interesting Childhood Significance Highlights

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“For me [being a kid actor], it's a bit like when you see your mom's friends, and they're like, "I remember when you were this big. You'll always be that cute little kid to me." It's like that times a thousand. Well, times a couple thousand.”

Wells Littles Bigs Kids Remember Actors Bits Mom Couple Thousand Cute Little Kid Remember When Your Mom Being A Kid

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“It's a little bit annoying, because it feels like everybody's taking the power away from you. Everybody's taking your adult life away from you. On one level, I used to resent it.”

Feels Littles Used Bits Levels Little Bit Adults Annoying Resent Away From You

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“It definitely is something that can get frustrating, because you want to live life on your own terms, and it feels for a while like you can't. But I've come to understand that I got to have all these amazing experiences that other people don't have. So this is the trade-off.”

People Want Feels Term Like You Trade Live Life Frustrating Trade Offs Amazing Experiences

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“I get a lot of "Shut up, Matilda." I probably get as many "Shut up, Matildas" as Wil Wheaton gets "Shut up, Wesleys." That was an actual line on his show, though.”

Shows Lines Shut Up

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“It is annoying when people call me Matilda instead of my name when they actually know my name, because you know, we are two different people. But what can you do?”

People Knows Two Different Names Call Me Annoying Different Peoples

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

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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.”

Kids Age Adults Reminding

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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.”

Looks Remember Eating Tables Come Up Crafts Sigh Oreos Grown Women

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“Puberty was definitely difficult for me.”

Difficult Puberty

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

Firsts Remember My Friends Exciting Looking Forward Puberty

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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.”

Want Self Felt Losing Conscious Scared Self Conscious Puberty Giggle Losing Myself

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“I felt like I had to be conscious of myself as a girl for the first time. I had to be more feminine. I had to look a certain way. And it's something that you want to suffer in silence, but I would go onto movie sets and they would bring out bras that were basically binders, because there were continuity problems between months.”

Way Want Firsts Looks Problem Certain Suffering Girl Felt Silence Months Conscious First Time Feminine Continuity Bras Movie Sets Binders

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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.”

Feels Years Children Might Term Groups Personality Chemistry Rushing Camaraderie

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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.”

People Children Littles Book Dog Sunglasses

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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.”

People Want Seems Kids Levels

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“Of course I didn't have a boyfriend then. I didn't even have a camp boyfriend then [at age of 13].”

Age Courses Camps

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“I was such a nerd. It just wasn't something I would have wanted. And I didn't want to act like an adult.”

Want Wanted Adults Nerd

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“I remember reading To Kill A Mockingbird when I was 12. What I liked about it is that it was all seen through a child's eyes. It was Harper Lee going back and writing it from the way a child would see those things.”

Way Writing Children Eye Remember Reading Harper Mockingbird Kill A Mockingbird

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“I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted.”

Kind Adults All Kinds

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“I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better.”

Children Pure Innocent

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“I guess I was a philosophical child.”

Children Philosophical

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“There were things that I knew that I was going to keep to myself.”

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“The Hollywood stuff in the book tended to come later. I think it was because I was worried about leading with that stuff. I wanted to try to make sure that the other stories in the book were as interesting. I wanted to spend more time on them and craft them. The thing is, with writing, it's form or content.”

Thinking Writing Trying Book Stories Wanted Form Stuff Interesting Hollywood Crafts Worried More Time

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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.”

Real Acting Our Family Toothpaste Real Family

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“I watched the video [ with my first commercial] when I was 20, and in the video, there are two families. The first family is this smiling blond Partridge family, a Californian/Aryan kind of thing, all playing guitars, all singing together and harmonizing. And then, there's my family - and in my family, it starts with my mom saying that she feels like a drill sergeant sometimes, and she's yelling at one of my brothers to stop hitting another one of my brothers. It's just like, "Great, we're that family." It felt a little Simpsons versus Flanders.”

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

Long Stories Wanted Acting Brother Long Story

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“I was getting keys for my apartment, and I asked if I could get doubles, because I'm forgetful, and the woman there said, "Yeah, but it costs $5." I was like, "Oh, okay." But then she said, "Actually, you know what, I'm just going to give it to you for free. You were in that movie Mrs. Doubtfire, and that movie really helped me out in a time when I needed it. It got me through something, and it made me laugh when I needed to laugh.”

Ifs Knows Giving Made Said Laughing Keys Needed Cost Okay Yeah If I Could Apartment Forgetful

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“My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all? So my grades weren't great, but I feel like, is there any other way that I could have gotten into NYU? I don't know. I think that it definitely worked in my favor in some ways.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Feels Kind School High School Very Good Favors Grades Perfectionist Nyu

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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.”

People Want Trying Age Childhood College Degrees Distance Teenager Childish Things

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“I'm in my late 20s, and people are coming around to it again. I think they're realizing how much this stuff affects them. I think all the time about how much Judy Blume affected me, or Beverly Cleary. And I think that now some people are starting to come around and get more of an appreciation for [my stuff].”

People Thinking Stuff Realizing Late Starting Appreciation Affected

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“If you can affect someone when they're young, you are in their heart forever.”

Ifs Heart Young Forever

Book:Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame

Source: Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame

“If I were really really ridiculously wealthy, I wouldn’t buy a mansion, just tiny apartments in every city I love.”

Ifs Cities Actresses Tiny Wealthy Apartment Mansions

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“Very sad, very upset, very glad I did not have to hear about this though Twitter. Probably going to be taking some time off it for a while.”

Glad Upset Time Off Very Sad

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“I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.”

Feels I Can Felt Acting Happened Childhood Pride Lifetime Hobbies

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“If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan, I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into something soothing. Take up botany or something.”

Ifs Acting Hell Soothing Botany

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“I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Hollywood didn't really want me anymore, and I was like, 'Yeah, I don't really want you, either.'”

Want Acting Hollywood Yeah Breakup Mutual Want Me Puberty

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“I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.”

Ifs Knows Grows Acting Growing Up Scripts

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“My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.”

Young Mother Acting Died Constant Mother Died

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About the Author

Born: July 24, 1987
Known for: Actress
Quotes: 90

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