Helen McCrory Quotes

I find that a lot of child actors are ruined once they've done a job.

You always hear these stories of people who grew up in Hollywood, and they're like, 'We lost our childhood.' But I was very fortunate.

A lot of people don't like child actors.

At times, I feel sorry for kids who have succumbed in some kind of way to being a child actor.

I'm sure no one really wants to think of themselves as a child actor.

Unless people are in the shoes of a child actor, they don't realise how difficult it can be at times. I definitely enjoy what I'm doing, though.

There's an incredible amount of loneliness that comes with child stardom because you're isolated from your society.

I've read about actors trying to prevent their kids from getting into it, and I think that's from what they themselves experienced in the industry.

I don't know if child actors are necessarily more screwed up than most people.

My parents always instilled in me this feeling of wanting to be a normal person. I never moved out to L.A. as a kid and got into that scene and that whole thing that happens to kid actors that's the reason they go off the deep end.

I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.

Child actors don't have great track records.

I can see how child stars can be thrown off-kilter.

At times I do feel that there is some issue with child actors because in all my films my performance has been appreciated but the films have not created magic at the box office.

We have seen many child actors who have gone astray. They were particular that 'Zakhm' was going to be my last film as a child actor and after that I took a six year break for education.

I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning.

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

I think a lot of people who are child actors - it's a weird thing.

A lot of child actors keep acting for the wrong reasons.

There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.

I was neurotic and weird from an early age.

I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life.

If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.

I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.

The hardest thing about being a kid actor is just kind of separating 'this is my professional life' and 'this is my kid life.' That was always the hard part for me.