Cameron Boyce Quotes

I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image.

The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.

I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.

When you're growing up in the public eye, it's hard to go from a girl into a woman in front of everyone.

Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.

There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.

When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger.

No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.

Not a lot of people make that transition from child actor to bigger, better roles.

I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like that, which was what 'The Big Steal' and 'Spotswood' were about. But I guess that's the impression I left on people.

Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.

I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.

I changed my name when I was about twelve because I didn't like being called Sue or Susie. I felt I needed a longer name because I was so tall. So what happened? Now everyone calls me Sig or Siggy.

I remember the kind of teenager I was, the kind of teenager I wanted to be, and then the kind of teenagers that were all around me. Life is lived on such a big scale in those years - and such an embarrassing one as well.

When you're a child actor and play the precocious kid, the temptation is to wear leather pants or a cutoff shirt to redefine yourself. But I never felt the need to randomly reshuffle the deck and say, 'Don't call me Peter. Call me Pete.' I just figured you evolve naturally, and you'll be recognized for what your successes are.

I kept getting offered all this young adult stuff. I don't want to keep telling teen coming-of-age stories!

You don't know who you are when you're 14.

The first album was a coming-of-age album - I don't like the phrase, but when you listen to it, you can tell I was having a hard time, that I wasn't socially relating to people.

I feel like we're always learning about ourselves, but at twelve, you're learning big things that shape your identity.

I always find myself gravitating toward stories of transformation, and one of those periods is teenage life. When teenagers are figuring out who they are and have one foot in childhood and the other in adulthood - I think that's a really mythic moment to tell stories about.

You go through so many changes, especially in your twenties.

It's one of those things that gets written off as humorous when you watch a child entertainer try to redefine themselves, but it can be an intense identity crisis.

Many associate me with the person I was when I was young. But I had a different role then, played in a different position.