Able Quote by Jena Malone

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

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

Since age 14, I know what actors fear, what they like; I know how to get things out of them and I listen to…

— Joan Chen

Whatever it is that you are doing as an actor, if it frightens you, if you're scared of it, you need to do it.

— Haaz Sleiman

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

The worst thing for a kid is to move around and switch schools, but as an actor, you go from job to job, meeting…

— John Cho

Sometimes you have to get out of your own way as an actor. Young actors tend to over prepare sometimes and over think it.…

— Frank Langella

The interesting thing with child actors is that kids are natural actors. They're wonderful actors, and most kids are acting all the time. They're…

— Clint Eastwood

Actors are frightened little children.

— Alan Rosenberg

Theres a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better,…

— Kiefer Sutherland

As an actor, you want to be open to the unexpected. So in order to be open to that, you do have to get…

— Annette Bening

There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your lines with…

— Naomie Harris