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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.
Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
To be an actor you have to be a child.
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.
Being an actor somehow can be a perverse extension of that feeling we generally all have as children, that feeling of wanting to please. Of course you're looking for affirmation, encouragement.
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.
When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.
As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.
All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.