To be an actor you have to be a child.

The truth is that I've always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was a child. I used to see these English movies…

— Randeep Hooda

I wanted to be an actor since I was a child.

— Sanjay Mishra

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

— Christopher Walken

I was born in Japan, and I grew up in England, and I wanted to be an actor when I was a child because…

— Sonoya Mizuno

If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what…

— Jack Davenport

I was a child actor but not a child star.

— Laurence Fishburne

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…

— Denzel Washington

An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself.

— Paul Newman

Child actors going on to become adult actors never really works, apart from a few. Jodie Foster was the exception.

— Mark Lester

People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination kicked out…

— Nicolas Cage

Actors don't hate acting. Most people don't hate acting! Whether you're a child mucking around with your friends or a grown up being paid…

— Liv Hewson

It took me a long time to make that leap to being a grown-up and responsible adult because I carried on being a child…

— Dexter Fletcher

I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to…

— Mara Wilson

I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster,…

— Jamie Bell

There has got to be a way for me to have a role on TV or in film that is just as normal as…

— Adeel Akhtar