At times, I feel sorry for kids who have succumbed in some kind of way to being a child actor.
Early success is really scary. Especially in acting.
I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.
Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.
With pilot season, you have to jump through so many hoops, there are so many people in the room, you end up doing four or five auditions. You're just quaking by the end of it.
If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan, I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into something soothing. Take up botany or something.
I still enjoy acting. I love the moment in front of the camera, but it's all the other moments that I don't enjoy. The 'business' aspect of it, the gossip.
There's a lot of focus on kids like Macaulay Culkin or others who had bad situations at some point in their careers and not enough focus on the people who do good like Natalie Portman or Claire Danes. It's hard for children to have these full-time jobs with all this responsibility.
