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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think some of the best actors ever were little kids.
Not a lot of people make that transition from child actor to bigger, better roles.
When you're a child, you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.
I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.
The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.
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.
To be an actor you have to be a child.
When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.
I am the youngest of four children - three boys and one girl. I don't think becoming an actor had anything to do with seeking attention, though. My relationship with my siblings when I was growing up was close and playful.
All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.