Maria Callas Quotes

Children should be allowed to be children and not be sold.

I was always made to work at a very early age. I finished school at 4 P.M. and by 5 P.M. I was working. It was seven days a week.

No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

No child should be born to work at the cost of his childhood and freedom..

I'd say that kids working on sets, even if it's Bambi, need to be allowed to be kids, even if they're working, not become little adults - that to me can be distorting to kids as an experience.

I won't give up until the exploitation of all children has ended and all children have their rights.

Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.

English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.

It's difficult being a child actor. I don't think everything beautiful has to be exploited. Some things can be beautiful and left beautiful.

I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is.

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

I've always felt this, from when I was growing up to now with my son Riley. We don't let them be little. I was not a normal kid, but I had a sense of innocence far longer than we let kids.

If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.

I support anything to do with the welfare and rights of children in a huge way.

All children have rights and those rights must be protected.

When I went to Paris after graduating high school, I saw a model who was 12 years old without any supervision. That wouldn't happen in the acting world.

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

I wasn't the one managing my career back then, that was the problem - I was 14 years old.

Childhood is just this amazing place, and in my books, I was trying to express my concern about childhood being eroded. You have kids' TV programs being interrupted by terrorist attacks, and kids are exposed to so much these days.

I don't like games. You're robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.

Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much meaning, to things.

Making children cry for a photographer can be considered mean. But I would say that making children laugh and show off their jeans for an apparel ad is just as exploitative and less natural. Toddlers' natural state, like, 30 percent of the time, is crying, and it doesn't indicate pain or suffering.