Child Fame Quotes

All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap.

My father was proud that people thought I was a good actress. I'm the only child. And daddy's girl.

It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.

I have spent so much time and so much energy making other people's children stars.

I think that children that are acting are always pretty savvy anyway because you're conducting yourself around adults a lot of the time, aren't you? But there is this worry now that children just want to be famous.

People would see me on a Nickelodeon commercial, and I would hear about it the next day in school.

I moved to L.A., and I lived in the Oakland Apartments, which is this notorious hub for actor children and their stage moms. For the first few years that I lived there, Hilary Duff and Frankie Muniz frequented the apartments. I was much younger than them at the time.

There is a weirdness about having a famous pre-pubescent in the house when you are going through the trials and tribulations of adolescence.

Historically, Disney Channel stars don't survive well outside of the Disney environment.

People who grew up as child stars have the same thing in common. You're cute, they love you; you go through the awkward stage, they don't accept you any more. Very few make the transition to adult star.

I think I was an infant when I was on 'Gilmore Girls.'

I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.

Do people think I'm cool because I was in a movie when I was a child? No. Well, maybe a little bit more than they used to. There's definitely a nostalgia factor.

People expect star kids to be perfect - horse-riding, fighting.

Of course there have been times I regretted being the kid in 'E.T.' My world went completely crazy. I was that stupid kind of famous, where you can't go anywhere.

I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.

It's fine if you are on TV and people are taking pictures with you but where is the money? That is what parents are concerned about.

My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.

We signed up my little girl to a modelling agency. This week she was doing a TV commercial for Aldi. She's done JD, Next, Speedos. She enjoys it.

There are parental concerns when one's daughter joins films.

My school has a bunch of actors and professional kids, like Chloe Grace Moretz, Odeya Rush, and Olympic gymnasts. Basically, anyone who has a job as a kid.