Child Actor Quotes
Growing up in public, told by those who lived it.
This child actor quotes page collects reflections from performers who started young, including one who refused to let the 'child actor stigma' define their career. For more on the craft itself, Actor quotes covers a broader range of perspectives.
A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
Virtually all my conscious life I had been involved in theatre - I had been a child actor - but as a young man who had experienced the 1960s, British theatre seemed remote from my aspirations in life - theatre...
Popular Quotes Topics for You.
If you're small and can speak clearly and you're a cute kid, that's the craft, really. The whole child actor thing can be dangerous sometimes. Other kids were taking piano lessons; I did ballet and acting.
I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.
Actor Quotes
When you're a child actor and play the precocious kid, the temptation is to wear leather pants or a cutoff shirt to redefine yourself. But I never felt the need to randomly reshuffle the deck and say, 'Don't call me...
I just turned 40, and it's weird to think that I've been doing this almost my whole life. I was a child actor and then didn't do it through junior high and high school, then started up again in my...
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.
Not a lot of people make that transition from child actor to bigger, better roles.
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.
Always Quotes
I was definitely acutely aware, the transition of being seen as a child actor to being taken seriously as an adult actor. It's not always a smooth one.
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...
After working in a number of films as a child actor, I took a break so that people could forget me as a child actor and relate to me as a hero.
I've gone through my adolescence on TV so it's pretty cringey when I look back on some pictures and scenes, but that's part and parcel of being a child actor and growing up.
Being Quotes
Any child actor will tell you that you don't have a lot of the tools or the experience to combat a lot of the criticism or very adult situations being thrown at you.
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...
It took me a long time to make that leap to being a grown-up and responsible adult because I carried on being a child actor into my late twenties. It's OK to be precocious when you're young, but when you're...
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.
Child Quotes
I was the class clown in school, and I was also a child actor - not on television, but in the theatre.
Related Quotes Topics for You.
Frequently Asked Questions
What do these child actor quotes talk about?
Why do people search for child actor quotes?
Is there a quote about the stigma of being a former child actor?
Does this page mention how work changes as a child actor gets older?
Is there a quote about watching old child actor footage?
Several quotes revisit the discomfort of watching old footage or scenes from adolescence, a common thread among former child actors. Readers interested in identity and growing up more generally may also enjoy Child quotes.
