Jack Wild Quotes

Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can't have any big failures. I've always felt regular. I played organized ball at the rec league. At 13, they told me I sold 3 million copies. I didn't know what that meant.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.

I've yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they do seem to come with age.

Boy, does that give you street cred for years after, if you tell people you were on 'The Larry Sanders Show!'

When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.

When you are young, you are a little naive.

I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.

Once upon a time, they thought I was a sweet, wide-eyed boy that was just trying to figure out how to kiss the girl. Lots of comic relief and adolescent yearnings.

Lindsay Lohan was the 'It' girl from, like, 14. That's a lot of pressure.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.

I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it's not like I was ever in the stratosphere of Kirk Cameron or Scott Baio.

A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

People don't understand being a child star is very hard because first off, to be a child star, you have to be very unique. These kids are talented to be able to do it at such a young age. At the same time, you go through the pressures of bullying and a lot of people not understanding.

At the age of ten, I thought if a boy kissed you on the lips, you would have a baby, and I surely wasn't the only youngster who believed that!

I guess I could say I'm an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I'm putting down being a movie star, which, let's face it, is what I've become to many people. For myself, I'm a guy who was very insecure from about age 14 until the day I hit my 30th birthday.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

I didn't get into this for fame, I genuinely didn't. I love acting, and I know that's a cliche, but I didn't, really, I was very naive when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.

I was a small kid.

I saw I wasn't an ingenue like Debbie Reynolds.