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When you're 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that the fantasy is reality. I think when you have a giant crush when you're in fifth grade, it becomes your whole world. It's like being underwater; everything is different.

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

At about twelve I just knew, something clicked, and I knew I wanted to be an actor and my parents, to their credit, granted this 12 year old girl a chance to give it a try.

I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.

When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child.

I prefer to be scared in a way that a 12-year-old would want to be.

Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.

As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary.

I am eternally 12 years old. I don't know if that's good or bad, but I like to have a good time!

I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life. Your innocent understanding of the world moves towards something messier and more complicated, and once it does you can never go back.