Actor Quote by Cynthia Nixon

Unlike me, a lot of child actors are very short, which is why they work. So when they're 15 they can play 11 or…

— Cynthia Nixon

Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work…

— Ben Mendelsohn

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

If you don't get famous when you're a kid, it makes the transition to adult actor easier.

— Tom Guiry

If you're an actor, you tend to fool yourself into thinking you're much younger than you are because you're playing parts and behaving like…

— John Lithgow

Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.

— Morgan Brittany

Older actors can still play young, but it's harder for young actors to be able to play that age range.

— David Schwimmer

Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie…

— Parker Stevenson

To be honest, it's considered very late to start acting at 11 and a half, for the industry. Most kids are doing it from…

— Mayim Bialik

As an actor I started off at a young age, but after a while certain maturity sets in.

— Esha Deol

I think there is a lot of loss in being a professional child actor. All of a sudden, you start to want to be…

— Joel Grey

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

— Jodie Foster