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I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

I always think it's hard for any young actor to make that transition to more grown-up roles. Because you don't want to alienate your audience who has been supportive of you for so many years, so you kind of have to tiptoe through that process.

I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.

The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up.

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.

I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.

Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.

I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.

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