I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.
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Child actors going on to become adult actors never really works, apart from a few. Jodie Foster was the exception.
The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.
A lot of child actors keep acting for the wrong reasons.
At times, I feel sorry for kids who have succumbed in some kind of way to being a child actor.
I've been really lucky when it comes to casting kids, and I don't particularly like child actors. Too often, they just show up, and they've had whatever real innocence that's in a child just beaten out of them. They start to perform for you, and you can just see it coming. It's no good.
I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.
It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism.
After all these years in the business, I really feel that actors are used. People treat actors worse than they treat children. It's always, 'Do me a favor,' it's always, 'Help me out,' it's always, 'You carry the load,' and then they don't want to admit what you've done.
Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.
Not a lot of people make that transition from child actor to bigger, better roles.
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