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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.

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

I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.

That transition from child to adult actor is so incredibly elusive. The roles that were coming to me as a young adult were not that great, but I was taking them anyway to pay the rent. And the more bad roles in bad movies I took, the less anybody wanted me for a good role in a good movie.

A lot of child actors keep acting for the wrong reasons.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home.

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.

To be an actor you have to be a child.