Able Quote by Abbas Kiarostami

When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't…

— Vincent D'Onofrio

As an actor, you always want to reach back to being a child and having the spontaneity and the imagination of a child.

— Wes Bentley

It's difficult because you can't generalise about these things. But in essence, you deal with children as simply as you deal with actors -…

— Michael Haneke

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

— Nastassja Kinski

The child has a primary need to be regarded and respected as the person he really is at any given time, and as the…

— Alice Miller

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

When I met Akira Kurosawa in Japan, one question he asked me was, "How did you actually make the children act the way they…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I think acting is totally conducive to being a little kid, because kids are less inhibited and use their imagination.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.

— Ben Kingsley

When you are working on the launch of an actor, you have to treat him or her like your own child.

— Sajid Nadiadwala

I felt a gravitational pull to the material so that there's a certain element of acting that's not really necessary. I've really liked this…

— Brendan Fraser

Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.

— Alexander Mackendrick