I'm sure no one really wants to think of themselves as a child actor.
I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.
I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.
I was a child actor but not a child star.
Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.
I didn't grow up as child actor.
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!'
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.
When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
My mom is definitely crazy. She would totally be a stage mom if I was a child actor.
I wouldn't even call myself a former child star. I was a child actor; there's a difference.
Frankly, there is no shorter shelf life other than that of a child actor, than that of the ingenue.
Even when I turn 60, they'll call me a child actor.
I'd see child actors and I'd get so jealous, because they're just completely wide open.
I find that a lot of child actors are ruined once they've done a job.
Most child actors, once they hit 18, once they hit 21, that's it. Even teenage kids often don't make the transition.
If I can make a career for myself after Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'.
I think, often, child actors are, like, overlooked a little bit.
I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.
When I choose child actors, I chose them for their personalities. And then I work with their own vocabulary, so I'm not imposing text or dialogue on them: I'm just receiving.
