For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you're a child, you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.
When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.
People are really emotionally affected by actors. And it's hard to know how to behave in a way that doesn't impose or withdraw. Because everybody wants your attention. Everywhere you go, you know?
I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can sometimes complicate things a little more. You can become too aware of, 'Okay, this is the scene emotionally. This is where we need to be. We've got the climax coming up.' You can start to analyze it too much.
Just as actors are afraid of child audiences because they're so honest, I would be scared stiff of going before the big folks.
I know what actors fear, what they like; I know how to get things out of them and I listen to them better, since I've been there.
Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
People are really emotionally affected by actors. And it's hard to know how to behave in a way that doesn't impose or withdraw. Because everybody wants your attention.
It's very difficult being an actor and being away for a lot of time, but my sons haven't complained too much too often.
Actors are frightened little children.