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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

Just as actors are afraid of child audiences because they're so honest, I would be scared stiff of going before the big folks.

Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

I think some of the best actors ever were little kids.

I think all actors get scared because we're frightened to disappoint.

I've been really lucky when it comes to casting kids, and I don't particularly like child actors. Too often, they just show up, and they've had whatever real innocence that's in a child just beaten out of them. They start to perform for you, and you can just see it coming. It's no good.

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don't have a toy, they'll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.

They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.

I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid.