Able Quote by Felicity Jones

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

— Jeremy Irons

As we mature and grow older we collect a lot of baggage, and a lot of that stuff you collect on life's journey gets…

— David Wenham

I've gone through my adolescence on TV so it's pretty cringey when I look back on some pictures and scenes, but that's part and…

— Kelvin Fletcher

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

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

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

When you're a child actor, part of you grows up really fast and part of you doesn't grow up at all.

— David Faustino

To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.

— Paul Newman

As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you…

— Simon McBurney

Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been…

— Derek Jacobi

I didn't grow up acting. I really just started, literally, when I was 18. I just feel like it's a thing of always just…

— Dylan O'Brien

It [love about acting] is all about role playing - the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play with dolls…

— Morgan Freeman