Play Quote by Dylan Llewellyn

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

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

— David Schwimmer

Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.'

— Elaine Stritch

By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.

— W. Somerset Maugham

As an actor, it's really exciting and challenging to play a character which is much older than your actual age.

— Nithya Menen

I've always played characters that were younger than myself.

— Carey Mulligan

You know, many actors when they get older are afraid to be around young people, but I welcome their views.

— Agnes Moorehead

I think, when you're an actor, it kind of enables you to fully inhabit all of the youngest parts of yourself.

— Barrett Wilbert Weed

Most child actors, once they hit 18, once they hit 21, that's it. Even teenage kids often don't make the transition.

— Cynthia Nixon

Whether it's a blessing or a curse, I have always played someone like 10 years younger. When I was 23 or 24, I was…

— Elisabeth Harnois

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

A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That…

— Ansel Elgort