The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.
We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.
I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.
I don't wish I started later, but I was never a child star. I was in school every year and had normal friends and I loved it and here I am, so I can't say that I wish I hadn't done it. I used to say, 'No, I didn't miss any of my childhood,' but it is a very adult place to be, a movie set. Like, it's a little weird.
I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.
I think if my daughter was interested in acting, I would find ways for her to act in theater that has to do with her school or a kids' improvisational thing. There are ways to do it where you're not on a movie set with 60 adults, which I loved at the time, but as a parent, I don't know that I'd be dying to put her in that spot.
