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

I've been an actor since I was a kid.

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

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

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.

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor.

I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.

I was very young when I became an actor: I was 19 years old.