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I didn't grow up as child actor.
I was a child actor but not a child star.
Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.
Even when I turn 60, they'll call me a child actor.
I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.
I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.
My father was just 9 when he started as a child actor in 'Afsana.'
When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
I come from a very uncool profession: being a washed up child actor.
I'm sure no one really wants to think of themselves as a child actor.
Navigating the transition from child actor to an adult actor isn't easy.
I wasn't a child actor. It was just three weeks of my life when I was eight.
Not a lot of people make that transition from child actor to bigger, better roles.
My mom is definitely crazy. She would totally be a stage mom if I was a child actor.
I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.
I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.
I wouldn't even call myself a former child star. I was a child actor; there's a difference.
I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.
At times, I feel sorry for kids who have succumbed in some kind of way to being a child actor.
The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.
When you're a child actor, part of you grows up really fast and part of you doesn't grow up at all.
Frankly, there is no shorter shelf life other than that of a child actor, than that of the ingenue.
I was the class clown in school, and I was also a child actor - not on television, but in the theatre.
A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
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 have a career I am proud of as a child actor. I'm not running away from it or embarassed with anything I did.
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.
I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home.
For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.
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.
Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.
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.
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.
Unless people are in the shoes of a child actor, they don't realise how difficult it can be at times. I definitely enjoy what I'm doing, though.
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 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.
Some shows suck, but I always - the show must go on. I learned it from my past as a child actor. The show must go on. You have to just keep on with it.
There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your lines with a lot of energy and a cute smile.
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 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.'
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.
Any child actor will tell you that you don't have a lot of the tools or the experience to combat a lot of the criticism or very adult situations being thrown at you.
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.
I guess I was a child actor. Acting was one of the things I did alongside going to school: I'd be playing guitar, I'd be playing soccer, and I would be acting in movies.
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.
At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.
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 learnt a lot as a child actor. Since I had been before the camera, I knew how it would be to be on a set or on a shoot. That way it was easy for me when I re-entered the industry as the main lead.
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.
We focus a lot on culture specifically at Twitter because of this spotlight, and of the fact that we don't want to end up like the child actor who found success early and grew up all weird and freaky.