Acting Quote by Clint Eastwood

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 child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no…

— Mariel Hemingway

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don't have a toy, they'll pick up a stick and make a…

— Clint Eastwood

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

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

It's what all actors try to do, really, to just preserve the child inside them because their imagination is quite available. I think partly…

— Bertie Carvel

I think, often, child actors are, like, overlooked a little bit.

— Sadie Sink

A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they're trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that's beyond…

— Alessandro Nivola

For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It's a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It's the sort…

— Michael Gambon

I think loads of people see acting, when they're kids, as these magical stories that just happen within the context of the film or…

— Rebecca Hall

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

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he shouldn't be…

— Simon McBurney