Quotes About Child Actors

#1. I don't perform well in private. Socially, I mean. And I didn't as a child. Actors aren't necessarily outgoing, are they?

Lindsay Duncan

#2. I had great parents, and they trained me well and instilled great values in me. They also taught me common sense about money and that I couldn't count on the good fortune of doing a show forever. Therefore, I never spent money I didn't have and didn't end up destitute like other child actors.

Ken Osmond

#3. Child actors going on to become adult actors never really works, apart from a few. Jodie Foster was the exception.

Mark Lester

#4. I'd see child actors and I'd get so jealous, because they're just completely wide open.

Joaquin Phoenix

#5. There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.

Tina Yothers

#6. I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.

Ashley Johnson

#7. When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.

Mariel Hemingway

#8. 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

#9. The interesting thing with child actors is that kids are natural actors. They're wonderful actors, and most kids are acting all the time. They're imagining they're out in the yard playing. They're imagining that things happened, and they can get very vivid.

Clint Eastwood

#10. Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures.

Hailee Steinfeld

#11. If I can make a career for myself after Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'.

Daniel Radcliffe

#12. So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.

Helen McCrory

#13. Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.

Morgan Brittany

#14. There was not an industry for child actors. I never really made any money. It was all about fun for me.

Michiel Huisman

#15. Most child actors, once they hit 18, once they hit 21, that's it. Even teenage kids often don't make the transition.

Cynthia Nixon

#16. I don't know if child actors are necessarily more screwed up than most people.

Rider Strong

#17. Child actors don't have great track records.

Leslie Mann

#18. 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

#19. It's very hard to find a good child actor. There are a lot of child actors out there, especially in America, and they're cute kids, but most child actors appear on sitcoms where their main role is to be cute and make funny little remarks.

George R R Martin

#20. In the movies, the child actors were doing real homework to make the scene more realistic.

Mariah Caitlyn

#21. A lot of child actors keep acting for the wrong reasons.

Nicholas Hoult

#22. I think a lot of people who are child actors - it's a weird thing.

Lorelei Linklater

#23. 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

#24. I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.

Macaulay Culkin

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

Danny Bonaduce

#26. 'Parenthood' has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.

Jason Katims

#27. Some kids are fine, but often I don't like what I see in child actors. My kids are young and they are already showing an interest, so I have to try to discourage them, squash that in them.

John Leguizamo

#28. 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.

Cynthia Nixon

#29. I had a hard time at school because I worked, so I was quite often out of school, which meant that I didn't make many friends. It can happen to child actors, because you're not in the school environment. And I did miss that school environment and being around people.

Yasmin Paige

#30. I suppose actors crave attention of some kind or they have suffered some form of arrested development and are still living in a sort of child's fantasy existence at some level in their psyche.

Hugh Laurie

#31. A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

Jean Renoir

#32. I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors.

Ewan McGregor

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

Vin Diesel

#34. As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

Felicity Jones

#35. If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.

Jack Davenport

#36. In order to be able to cooperate with a child, you have to come down to below their level in order to communicate with them. Actors are also like children.

Abbas Kiarostami

#37. It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera.

Fred Savage

#38. All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The moralists, censorship and oppression, technology, and now poverty have all tried to destroy her. Only we, the actors and audiences, have kept her alive.

Gene Wolfe

#39. Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.

Lee Child

#40. I went on to host a kids' program from when I was around 10 until 15. In some ways I'm a child actor.

Michiel Huisman

#41. It's like, to me, acting is like a child walking in the park, the better the actor, the greater the playground he has.

Logan Lerman

#42. I didn't realise my upbringing was unusual until my teens. As the child of two actors, I presumed that visiting film sets and being surrounded by colourful characters was normal.

Emilia Fox

#43. A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'

Gene Wilder

#44. For me, it's just acting. It's pretending. The best actors are children, and children don't do research. You never see a child going, 'I'm wondering about my motivation here. How can I do this toy? How can I do this train? I don't feel train.'

Brian Cox

#45. I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America.

Mel Torme

#46. You should be able to tell your child, "This is an actor. And she's older than Mommy!"

Rosie O'Donnell

#47. Just as actors are afraid of child audiences because they're so honest, I would be scared stiff of going before the big folks.

Bob Keeshan

#48. I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.

Ben Kingsley

#49. Like a heartbeat. Something inside me. Some dream. I think it's being a dreamer as a child. Dreamy kids become actors, don't they?

Michael Gambon

#50. As a child, I always remember our home, which was a flat just on the Barnes side of Hammersmith Bridge in London, buzzing with actors such as Patrick McGee and Peter Bowles. We were a family who were always on the go.

Samantha Bond

#51. 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.

Mara Wilson

#52. If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.

Clark Gable

#53. Acting is a child's prerogative. Children are born to act. Usually, people grow up and out of it. Actors always seem to me to be people who never quite did grow out of it.

Joanne Woodward

#54. 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.

Alice Miller