My children are unaffected by me being an actress because that's the way I like to keep it. I love the fact that they are so innocent about my star status. Sometimes, they come running to me and say, 'Mom, you are on TV.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.
At times, I feel sorry for kids who have succumbed in some kind of way to being a child actor.
The kids don't really have any part of my television life. Fortunately, there aren't many times when show business intrudes on our family existence.
Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.
I honed my passion for acting in theatre and education, and I think it's important not to belittle the child audience.
Eventually, I'll go back to acting, but for right now, my children are the most important thing in the world to me.
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.
If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is.
I'm still very much about being an actor. That's why I'm not married with kids.
Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!