“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.” PeopleTryingChildrenYoungActorsCausesLosesActingRolesModelsAdultsStinkKeep LearningChild Actors Author:Haley Joel Osment
“The Left is acting like a young child, saying 'I want peace'... A child says 'I want candy right away,' an adult takes all of the factors into account and understands who he's dealing with.” WantChildrenYoungLeftActingAdultsAccountsFactorsCandyYoung Children Author:Ehud Barak
“If you want to be treated like adults then start acting like them.” IfsWantActingAdultsTreated Author:Michael Cera
“Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.” ChildrenActingAdultsComicDevices Author:Seth MacFarlane
“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.” WayTryingChildrenRealSeemsKidsCertainFallActorsFeltActingMaterialsLike YouGoes OnElementsAdultsMethodFalling In LoveChild Actors Author:Brendan Fraser
“When I'm on an adult set and I'm in a scene, I am myself. I'm not acting. I am playing to the camera, definitely, but I am myself.” ActingSceneAdultsCameras Author:Sasha Grey
“I do not believe in public shaming. I do believe that young adults go to college to learn things, and that this process will almost inevitably result in their making mistakes and misjudgments and otherwise acting badly.” BelieveYoungProcessResultsActingMistakeCollegeAdultsYoung AdultMaking MistakesActing Badly Author:Gene Weingarten
“In terms of my relationships with a lot of the adult characters, when I was working with Harrison, it wasn't like a verbal agreement, but we both understood that because there was this constant tension between our characters, we couldn't say "Cut" and start acting normal. We had to keep an essence of that relationship in our characters off screen which is really important.” ImportantCharacterTermActingCuttingNormalUnderstoodAdultsEssenceConstantScreensTensionAgreement Author:Asa Butterfield
“Working with children is very different than the way in which I work with adults. I never tell the children the actual truth of the thing that I want them to act. Although children are really into play and play acting, and this is a major part of their existence, they never actually find the playing or acting of adults credible.” WayWantChildrenDifferentPlayActingExistenceMajorsAdultsCredibleWorking With Children Author:Asghar Farhadi
“If I am acting out in any particular way that is harmful to myself - without a shadow of doubt, there is a feeling suppressed under wanting that second candy bar. Often, it is that little voice I haven't paid attention to. It's generally not the adult voice. If I take a moment to address that and figure out what that is, the desire for the candy bar seems to dissipate.” IfsWayLittlesMomentsFeelingsSeemsDesireVoiceActingAttentionDoubtHavensFiguresParticularAdultsShadowPaidBarsAddressesCandyActing OutCandy Bar Author:Danny Boyle
“The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.” ChildrenLongActorsActingTakenLong TimeAdultsHardestHardest ThingChild Actors Author:Shia LaBeouf
“Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.” FunnyFormActorsActingHumorousAdultsOccupationMasochismMasochisticActors And ActingExhibitionism Author:Laurence Olivier
“I think that children that are acting are always pretty savvy anyway because you're conducting yourself around adults a lot of the time, aren't you? But there is this worry now that children just want to be famous.” ThinkingWantChildrenActingWorryAdultsConductingSavvy Author:Ashley Jensen
“He's treating her like she's fourteen and he's a normal adult, acting like he's taken her under his wing. Like he needs her detecting skills, same as Barrons did to Mac, and she's falling for it, same as Mac. He's lining up his dominoes, so they fall more easily when he feels like pushing them over, conserving energy so he doesn't have to hunt her when he's ready to kill her.” NeedsFeelsFallEnergyActingTakenReadySkillsNormalAdultsWingsPushingHuntsFourteenMacsConservingLining Up Book:Iced: Fever Series Source: Iced: Fever Series
“And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting.” IfsSaidMotherSpeakActingCareersWindAdultsCaughtGuidesQuittingOne TimeI Quit Author:Mark Ruffalo