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“Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.”

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

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“I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.”

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Author:Roddy McDowall

“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.”

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Author:Alessandro Nivola

“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.”

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Author:Anna Popplewell

“I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.”

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Author:Archie Panjabi

“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.”

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Author:Asia Argento

“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!"”

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Author:Alexander Skarsgard

“Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.”

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Author:Imelda Staunton

“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.”

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Author:Mae Whitman

“I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like I wasn't appreciated as a child so I wanted to prove my worth as an adult, as an actor.”

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Author:Jesse Metcalfe

“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.”

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Author:Ricky Schroder

“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.”

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Author:Mike Lookinland

“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.”

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Author:Cynthia Nixon

“As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions.”

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Author:Lavrenti Lopes

“I try to keep away from being bigheaded. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink the rest of their life. But there are several respected adult actors who were child actors that started very young. I'm going to try to model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster. Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.”

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Author:Haley Joel Osment

“I want to abolish tags like 'comeback' and 'retirement' that are used to define every married female actor. What is the big deal? In Hollywood, every top actor takes a break, has children, and gets back to work.”

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Author:Karisma Kapoor

“I'm not a director that's about precision and control and perfection, I'm about creating an atmosphere that's organic and interesting and then letting people loose, and for that there's no greater actor or performer than children. Animals are maybe a close runner-up.”

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Author:David Gordon Green

“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.”

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Author:Kate Beckinsale

“When I was a child actor, I had the fear that I was going to be cast as the tree.”

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Author:Vin Diesel

“I don't know why anyone would want to ask an actor for dating advice. We are not the poster children for healthy relationships.”

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Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“Having children has helped me become a better actor because they remind you to play make believe. It's the ease and naturalness of their beings. They just play and it's completely real for them at the time. As an actor, if we do it well, we make you believe.”

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Author:Matthew McConaughey

“You often hear that people go into show business to find the love they never had when they were children. Never believe it! Every comic and most of the actors I know had a childhood full of love. Then they grew up and found out that in the grown-up world, you don't get all that love, you just get your share. So they went into show business to recapture the love they had known as children when they were the center of the universe.”

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Author:Mel Brooks

“There are people out there with three jobs and small children. Being an actor is a walk in the park compared to working as a cleaner overnight. I'm lucky I'm not plucking chickens.”

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Author:Anne-Marie Duff

“Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors.”

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“Growing up I was involved in children's theater, so I was definitely on the path to be an actor and a singer.”

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Author:Victor Garber

“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.”

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Author:Nicolas Cage

“The child has a primary need to be regarded and respected as the person he really is at any given time, and as the center - the central actor - in his own activity.”

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Book:Prisoners of Childhood

Source: Prisoners of Childhood

“The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or lenient teacher, for the cook or maid, for his own friends, for the rich and poor. Naive and cunning, humble and haughty, gentle and vengeful, well behaved and willful, he disguises himself so well that he can lead us by the nose.”

“That scene in 'The Purge' where my kids, Mary's kids, are in danger was really crazy for me, because I suddenly I have my methods as an actor, so I went to the place of 'If somebody came near my children, with bad intent?'”

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Author:Lena Headey

“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.”

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Author:Emilia Clarke

“For a child actor, its a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.”

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Author:Jena Malone

“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.”

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Author:Mara Wilson

“Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.”

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Author:Mara Wilson

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

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Author:Charlie McDermott

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