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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

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.

I was a child actor in radio, and there’s not many of us left.

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.

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.

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

I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.

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.

I don’t feel I was ever a ‘famous’ child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace – not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.

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.

I was a child actor, so when I started filming when I was five years old, it was a long time ago.

I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.

That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes away their childhood and puts untold pressure on children.

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.

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.

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 there, and unless that child actor is freakin’ awesome, it’s going to be annoying.

I enjoyed meeting Emma [Watson]. I have a soft spot in my heart for child actors growing up. I know how hard that is. Having gone through that experience myself, I have a lot of sensitivity to it. For lack of a better word, I just feel like I love these kids, and I want them all to grow up and love themselves, and not get caught up in the wrong things, and to learn all the different things this profession has to give, and to understand it.

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.

So often when you meet child actors, they’re weird – they’re freaks. No, I mean it, they’re really odd people.

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

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

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

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

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

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

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

I have a career I am proud of as a child actor. I’m not running away from it or embarassed with anything I did.

It’s difficult being a child actor. I don’t think everything beautiful has to be exploited. Some things can be beautiful and left beautiful.

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

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