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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.
I wasn't a child who wanted to be an actor.
I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.
I didn't have any desire to be an actor until right before I did it.
Acting wasn't what I wanted to do forever. I wanted a home, and I wanted children.
I went back to high school and decided that I wanted to be a kid for a while, whatever that means, but once again I found myself back with acting, so clearly I couldn't escape the passion.
I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.
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.
After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.