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

I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that.

Some people manage to make that transition from child actor to adult actor seamlessly. But I felt that if I spent my whole life on a film set without taking a few years to do something else, all I would ever know about was film sets.

I didn't want to be an actress when I was younger - not even when I was older, to tell you the truth.

I wasn't a child who wanted to be an actor.

I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.

I was always interested in films and thought that was the path I should go down, but I didn't start pursuing acting until I was 17.

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

Actually, I wanted to be an actor when I was two years old.

I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom's was a casting director, so really, as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.