Top 33 Child Actor Quotes

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.

I think every child actor has that moment where they’re like, ‘OK, I’m not the same person that I was, and you guys need to see me as something different.’

I’m sure no one really wants to think of themselves as a child actor.

That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes away their childhood and puts untold pressure on children.

As a child actor, I had sung a song in the Bengali film ‘Bhagyadebata’ but it wasn’t kept in the final edit.

After working in a number of films as a child actor, I took a break so that people could forget me as a child actor and relate to me as a hero.

Frankly, there is no shorter shelf life other than that of a child actor, than that of the ingenue.

My daughter’s wanted to be an actress since she was six years old, but I didn’t want her to go through the same experiences as I did as a child actor.

I wouldn’t even call myself a former child star. I was a child actor; there’s a difference.

I wasn’t a child actor. It was just three weeks of my life when I was eight.

When I started as a child actor, my father didn’t tell me anything.

Virtually all my conscious life I had been involved in theatre – I had been a child actor – but as a young man who had experienced the 1960s, British theatre seemed remote from my aspirations in life – theatre was still a posh thing, a middle-class thing, something for an elite.

For a child actor, it’s a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

It’s difficult being a child actor. I don’t think everything beautiful has to be exploited. Some things can be beautiful and left beautiful.

I was definitely acutely aware, the transition of being seen as a child actor to being taken seriously as an adult actor. It’s not always a smooth one.

I was a child actor in radio, and there’s not many of us left.

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

Kids kill a show! It’s, like, a fun concept when the character is pregnant, but then if a show runs for a while, I’m sorry, but it gets annoying when it starts to talk. You get a child actor in there, and unless that child actor is freakin’ awesome, it’s going to be annoying.

I didn’t want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that.

My memoir is being published by Beaufort Books and will be available fall of 2015. It’s about my unusual life as a child actor and how I made the unpopular choice to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

My mom is definitely crazy. She would totally be a stage mom if I was a child actor.

I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I’d beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, ‘Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.’

I’ve gone through my adolescence on TV so it’s pretty cringey when I look back on some pictures and scenes, but that’s part and parcel of being a child actor and growing up.

What’s with the whole ‘child actor’ and ‘teen actor’ thing? You’re either an actor or actress, or you’re not. I don’t get it! I want to be taken seriously as an actor.

As a child actor, you experience a lot of depression and anxiety… Yes, I went through depression, and it was not comfortable. Yes, I struggle with anxiety and being paranoid, trying to figure out who I am.

Even when I turn 60, they’ll call me a child actor.

My father was just 9 when he started as a child actor in ‘Afsana.’

Some people manage to make that transition from child actor to adult actor seamlessly. But I felt that if I spent my whole life on a film set without taking a few years to do something else, all I would ever know about was film sets.

I was the class clown in school, and I was also a child actor – not on television, but in the theatre.

My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.

I wasn’t like a Hollywood child actor – ‘I’m five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!’

I was a child actor but not a child star.

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.