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

I wasn't a child who wanted 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.

I was never famous as a kid. That's the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn't famous as a kid.

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.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.