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My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.

Making a living out of acting sounded like science-fiction when I was growing up. I didn't know anyone around me who lived from anything related to art.

Child actors going on to become adult actors never really works, apart from a few. Jodie Foster was the exception.

My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.

I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people.

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

I think everything that any actor does, I would assume, is shaped by how and where they grew up.

Although I grew up around movies, I don't know that I assumed I was going to 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.

Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.