Child Stars Quotes

I've always hate child stars, starting from way back when, when I was a child. The first child star I saw was Shirley Temple. She was six years old, two foot six and the biggest star in Hollywood. She wore ribbons in her hair, and frilly little pinafores and shiny patent-leather tap shoes - just like the boys in Glee do.

I was never an actress -- none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.

When I was on the 'Mickey Mouse Club,' there was Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling and Christine Aguilera. But they were 12 and I was 17, so there was a bit of an age difference.

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.

You can't be a kid in show business. You will not survive.

Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.

The only privilege star kids enjoy is a good launch. That, of course, is important.

The kind of films and roles I do were never in competition with any star kid. Their aspirations are completely different.

I think the main reason a lot of child stars don't make it is that it's hard to see someone as cute and then all of a sudden see them as having more depth.

Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at least three former ones having very public breakdowns.

There were three great child singing stars: Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and Jackie Washington.

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

I think some of the best actors ever were little kids.

I think child stars have a leg up, actually, because they have an innate sense of what creative problem solving is all about. But to make a life out of it, you have to be ready to take on project after project. You have to like the action.

Hollywood is weird, man. The child-actor world is the weirdest. But somehow I survived.

Reality shows give a great platform to young singers, but kids shouldn't be exposed to showbiz at a very young age.

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.

Child actors are notorious for being brats.

I certainly know quite a few kid actors, but I'm not really friends with them. They're all very nice people, but I just don't run in the same circles.

I don't think kids of actors become good actors but exceptions are always there.

I think what Laura Linney was saying about teaching her all the lessons as a child actor, right, that's a whole ball of wax. That's a really mixed bag of stuff. I look at so many people that I knew personally or didn't know personally but who have ended badly, have died young, have been destitute - there are a lot of bad child-actor-gone-wrong stories, a very high percentage, but I think the thing about it is that a lot of those are Hollywood stories, and you don't have that same kind of a thing in the theater.

Macauley Culkin was on the show a lot. Or Haley Joe Osment.

I think the children of Hollywood are more influential than the parents.

By turning our culture over to the spectacle of child stars and their growing pains, we simply wind up taking their childishness seriously and ensuring that they don't grow up at all. And neither do we.

I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.