Top 1200 Child Actor Quotes & Sayings

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

I think what Laura Linney was saying about teaching her all the lessons as a child actor, right, that's a whole ball of wax. That's a really mixed bag of stuff. I look at so many people that I knew personally or didn't know personally but who have ended badly, have died young, have been destitute - there are a lot of bad child-actor-gone-wrong stories, a very high percentage, but I think the thing about it is that a lot of those are Hollywood stories, and you don't have that same kind of a thing in the theater.

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

When you're directing, it is a little easier, because when you're the actor, you have a to be a little more of a child. You have to get into the child's aspect of your personality a little bit more.

There's a lot of magic involved in movies that as a child I really appreciated. So I love bringing my son to set. It reminds me of what I loved doing as a child, and also, as an actor, you have a lot of down time.

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.

I wasn't a child who wanted to be an actor.

As a young Maori actor, I don't want to be seen as a child star; I want to be seen as a serious actor and an actor who can change the world.

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

Let the child be the scriptwriter, the director and the actor in his own play.

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

As an actor, you always want to reach back to being a child and having the spontaneity and the imagination of a child.

I'm an actor, full stop. Not an Arab actor. Not an actor of Algerian origin. Just an actor.

I went to a masterclass with Jonathan Pryce who said that a successful actor is not a famous actor, it's an actor who acts. And I have been incredibly fortunate to have worked constantly from the moment I left drama school, so I achieved what I set out to do. I am an actor.

When I was a child actor, I had the fear that I was going to be cast as the tree.

I was a child actor but not a child star.

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

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

There's nothing worse or more grating than a bad child actor performance.

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

I was born in Japan, and I grew up in England, and I wanted to be an actor when I was a child because I had an uncle who was an actor. I wanted to do everything he did, and he told me to learn how to dance first. So then I learned how to dance.

I feel like I grew up differently, when you're a child actor you grow up differently, but it's not that different than growing up as, like, a child basketball player who goes to the NBA. There are certain kids who become professionals at a very young age. There's a lot of sacrifice that goes into that.

The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.

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

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

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.

From the time I was a child, I wanted to be an actor.

An actor is an actor. There should be no labelling - mainstream actor, art film actor, serious actor, comic actor.

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 come from a very uncool profession: being a washed up child actor.

It's really a testament to my parents, because I was active, curious and creative as a child, and my parents nurtured that. But I wouldn't say that I was a professional child actor at all. I was never the breadwinner of my family.

When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buck teeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.

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

To be an actor you have to be a child.

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.

Hollywood is weird, man. The child-actor world is the weirdest. But somehow I survived.

I didn't grow up as child actor.

Im an actor, full stop. Not an Arab actor. Not an actor of Algerian origin. Just an actor.

A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This latter nomenclature, by the way, would be an excellent piece of consciousness-raising for the children themselves. A child who is told she is a 'child of Muslim parents' will immediately realize that religion is something for her to choose -or reject- when she becomes old enough to do so.

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

I feel whatever an actor does on screen is something the actor 'does,' and what the director can do is to tell, talk or instruct. So, all the credit for an actor's performance goes to the actor alone.

Not a lot of people make that transition from child actor to bigger, better roles.

I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.

Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.

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.

Navigating the transition from child actor to an adult actor isn't easy.

An actor is here to perform. For example, if a character is a Punjabi or a Bihari, and the actor is not, doesn't mean we have to cast an actor from that region. If an actor can perform, they can portray anyone because an actor is here to try different roles.

I believe you can't be an actor if you haven't had the feeling of being abandoned as a child.

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

We have seen many child actors who have gone astray. They were particular that 'Zakhm' was going to be my last film as a child actor and after that I took a six year break for education.

I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.

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

I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he shouldn't be an actor. I've always loved being with children. It's marvellous to see the fresh ways they see the world. Watching them look at a tree or a river helps you to understand something that's very important.

When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.

If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.

Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child.

It's very hard to find a good child actor. There are a lot of child actors out there, especially in America, and they're cute kids, but most child actors appear on sitcoms where their main role is to be cute and make funny little remarks.

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

Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child and be loved by the child.

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.