Able Quote by Vincent D'Onofrio

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

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

— Lauren Graham

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

— Kirk Douglas

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

I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.

— Saoirse Ronan

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

I never really thought about acting as a child. It wasn't like, "This is the career that I want to pursue." So when I…

— Blake Lively

I didn't always mean to be an actor. I was carried onto the stage when I was two days old, but I never acted…

— Peter Sellers

There's an infantilization that happens to actresses in general - musical theatre, straight theatre, television, film - we're spoken to like children. Actors are…

— Laura Benanti

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

— Jeremy Irons

In order to be able to cooperate with a child, you have to come down to below their level in order to communicate with…

— Abbas Kiarostami

Both my parents were actors and they struggled, so I was raised with that. Being raised in this industry from a young age definitely…

— Camila Morrone