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In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.

Hopefully I won't be 35 still playing a 16-year-old.

I don't think I want to play a teenager anymore.

I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer.

I would get so into playing as a kid that I'd lose track of time.

It hasn't been until the last couple years that I've started playing close to my age. But it's fun playing the younger roles because it takes you back to the teen years.

When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16.

Whether it's a blessing or a curse, I have always played someone like 10 years younger. When I was 23 or 24, I was playing 15 opposite Evan Rachel Wood in a movie called 'Pretty Persuasion.' She was 16 and nobody in a million years would have thought I was that much older than her.

People have different expectations when you're younger - it's less about changing yourself into a character; they want a more natural thing. And they just want you to be able to turn up every day and carry on working. They have a horrible fear of 10- or 11-year-olds, that they're going to say 'I don't want to play today.'