I like working with kid actors because they surprise you…

People are in denial all the time, hiding things. If I tell you a racist or dirty joke and you laugh, you're telling me…

— Martin Landau

I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

— John Malkovich

The interesting thing with child actors is that kids are natural actors. They're wonderful actors, and most kids are acting all the time. They're…

— Clint Eastwood

For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around…

— David Duchovny

Some kids are fine, but often I don't like what I see in child actors. My kids are young and they are already showing…

— John Leguizamo

I've borne these two kids into a particularly strange circumstance. They are going to have to fend off a lot and protect themselves from…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

Of course there were times, particularly when you travel, when it's very tough to leave the kids, particularly when they were very young. I…

— Anna Wintour

People have a range of capacities to deal with overwhelming experience. Some people, some kids particularly, are able to disappear into a fantasy world,…

— Bessel van der Kolk

I think all of us have really got to redouble our efforts, first of all, to pay attention to the K-12 crisis. The sad…

— Condoleezza Rice

I think kid actors may grow up faster, with the responsibility of having to do school work, learn all lines.

— Storm Reid

After 'Radio Flyer,' to this day, every family-oriented script or script with kid actors comes across my desk. That's just Hollywood: you get pigeonholed,…

— David M. Evans

It's kind of a crazy thing with kid actors because a lot of them get hired without people really knowing if they're good or…

— Ty Burrell

I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can sometimes complicate things a little…

— Hugh Jackman

I've worked with little kid actors before, and when they start crying or anything like that, it makes my job so easy, because you…

— Liam Hemsworth

I was comfortable in my thirties playing the romantic partner, the hero that saves the day, or the woman who is facing a world…

— Sharon Lawrence