"People like to make children into little grown-ups."
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"People seem to forget what it was like to be a child. I think it's partly because they want to forget, because it usually wasn't as good as you thought it was, and so you want to skip over those things, and not have to relate to that anymore."
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"I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seems to happen when I'm looking and feeling crappy."
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"I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes, I do still act sometimes. But when I do, it's with people I know and trust, people who respect me as a person and appreciate what I have to offer."
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"I'm surprised by how much I remember [on childhood on film]. I think it's just because I had these interesting moments. Of course, you never know when they're interesting moments, but there was a lot of stuff that I remember and have attached significance to later. I remember enough. I remember highlights."
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"It's easier to see children as mini adults than it is to imagine or to remember what it is to be a child again."
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"For me [being a kid actor], it's a bit like when you see your mom's friends, and they're like, "I remember when you were this big. You'll always be that cute little kid to me." It's like that times a thousand. Well, times a couple thousand."
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"It's a little bit annoying, because it feels like everybody's taking the power away from you. Everybody's taking your adult life away from you. On one level, I used to resent it."
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"Of course I didn't have a boyfriend then. I didn't even have a camp boyfriend then [at age of 13]."
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"I was such a nerd. It just wasn't something I would have wanted. And I didn't want to act like an adult."
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"People view child actors the same way that girls treat their Barbie dolls."
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"Nobody cares about that. I do have guys every now and then who say - it's always guys by the way, it's never women - who say, "You were my childhood crush, can we date?" And I'm like, "There's something kind of creepy about that. Do you hear yourself?""
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"My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all?"
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"I knew I didn't want to put anything down in writing about the first time that I had sex. I knew that I didn't want to do that."
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"I'm surprised by how much I remember."
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"A lot of child actors think they need to re-invent themselves, especially young women. Usually what they do is they adopt a sort of overt sexuality. It's fine if they want to do that, but a lot of times I think they feel obliged to do that, and that is something that I don't think anybody should feel obliged to express."
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"People think I'm smarter than I am."
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"I was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius."
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"When you're an actor, your body isn't your own. Your body is part of a tool that you use. Everybody else there is using you as a tool, so they have access to those things, too."
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"I can't even count how many times I did interviews with people and they asked me if I had a boyfriend. Keep in mind that I was, I guess, mild to moderately famous from ages 6 to 13. Of course I didn't have a boyfriend then. I didn't even have a camp boyfriend then."
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