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 never a child actor. I was a child performer.
Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.
Child actors don't have great track records.
I didn't grow up as child actor.
I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.
A lot of child actors keep acting for the wrong reasons.
'Parenthood' has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.
I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.
I don't perform well in private. Socially, I mean. And I didn't as a child. Actors aren't necessarily outgoing, are they?
Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.
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, ...
The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.
I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.
Child actors going on to become adult actors never really works, apart from a few. Jodie Foster was the exception.
To be an actor you have to be a child.
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.
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.
I wasn't a child who wanted to be an actor.
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.
When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.
