Child Performer Quotes

My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade.

I was an actor who happened to be a kid.

Well, the first band was at nine, and I was on the road when I was 12 with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers.

I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.

I was a late bloomer. I wasn't a child performer.

I wouldn't even call myself a former child star. I was a child actor; there's a difference.

I was five or six when I joined SAG, and Equity I joined when I was nine.

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

I spent my whole childhood in leotards, tutus, sports bras; I was showing my midriff from the age of three.

For me [being a kid actor], it's a bit like when you see your mom's friends, and they're like, "I remember when you were this big. You'll always be that cute little kid to me." It's like that times a thousand. Well, times a couple thousand.

Ryan [Gosling] has a history with the Mickey Mouse Club. He was a child performer himself. And he took the time to get to know people.

When I was five I was touring, singing and dancing. Always gone, always out of school.

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

An infant prodigy of nine is shoved upon the stage in white. She starts off in a dismal whine about a dark and stormy night, a burglar, whose heart is true, despite his wicked-looking face, who puts the little child in doom, to save her mamma's jewel case. This may bring tears to every eye; it does not set my heart on fire. I'd like to stand serenely by and watch that horrid child expire.

I call myself a comic.But I started as an actress. I did plays since I was 5.

One of my first big shows, I opened up for Chris Brown; I was about 10 years old, and Chris Brown was just big; he still is one of my idols now.

I performed in public for the first time at three years old. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was on a big stage. There were probably three or four hundred people in the audience. We were doing this dance, this Kermit the Frog routine, all of us in our little green leotards.

The first show I did was 'The Nutcracker' ballet. I was one of the kids who comes out in the beginning.

I went on to host a kids' program from when I was around 10 until 15. In some ways I'm a child actor.

Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child.

I was studying in Jaipur when All India Radio was inaugurated. As a child artiste, I participated and was selected for a children's programme.

When I was about nine or 10, I was on a few random talent shows in shopping malls.

I was recording stuff with my dad when I was like five, six years old. I played with him on tour. I'd gone with him to Japan in '91, played some gigs, did a couple shows at the Albert Hall.

I would not let my children act when they are young!

When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.