Alyson Stoner Quotes

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

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

I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.

The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.

Fame isn't healthy for a writer.

To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.

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.

When you're a child actor, part of you grows up really fast and part of you doesn't grow up at all.

There's an incredible amount of loneliness that comes with child stardom because you're isolated from your society.

I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.

Now with all this movie business, everybody's coming around wanting to know everything that's happened since I was four. It's like going to an analyst.

Some girls love to go to the airport and have 50 paparazzi on them. I go to the airport and have a mental breakdown.

What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property.

So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.

I think a lot of people who are child actors - it's a weird thing.

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.

Plenty of Disney kids are perfectly normal and love what they do. But you always hear about the people who aren't doing well. It's kind of like the squeaky wheel.

I've noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love.

A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.

My heart goes out to the Lindsay Lohans and Britneys who have really had childhood taken from them and probably missed important developmental steps. They have become sort of 'public domain' and something to be made money on. There's no sense of self there, I'm sure of it.

You come to America, and, if you do a big TV show, then you can be overexposed, or old, before you're new.

You always hear these stories of people who grew up in Hollywood, and they're like, 'We lost our childhood.' But I was very fortunate.

I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'.

I never went to any of the Hollywood child parties.

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'