Alexa Vega Quotes

Not a lot of people make that transition from child actor to bigger, better roles.

The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.

I just feel like you have to go through this crazy transition if you're going to continue on with your career from a child star to an adult star.

As an actor, it's a very strange adjustment to start playing the father. I was used to playing a kid my whole life, and then all of a sudden, it's like, boom. I guess when I let my hair go grey, things changed.

Coming out of 'Spy Kids,' I immediately wanted to do more grown-up roles, and I was turning down a lot of the kind of younger, cheesier roles.

A kid actor to an adult actor is a tricky one.

It was strange doing that transition from teenager to more adult roles, but I think it just makes it more exciting.

It's always exciting to explore adult roles when the vast majority of viewers that have seen me on TV know me from 'Glee,' from something of a different tone.

Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.

Making a transition to the adult acting industry was pretty smooth for me, and I had a great balance and a great opportunity not to do just children shows.

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.

I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

I'm not scared of growing up, but it just happens, doesn't it?

I want to get away from the high school thing and do other types of roles.

The characters in the book grow up with us. My voice has broken as well.

I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.

I need to try and get away from that brat role, or people are going to think I'm a natural brat.

I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image.

My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I've played before.

I think every child actor has that moment where they're like, 'OK, I'm not the same person that I was, and you guys need to see me as something different.'

Navigating the transition from child actor to an adult actor isn't easy.

I was definitely acutely aware, the transition of being seen as a child actor to being taken seriously as an adult actor. It's not always a smooth one.

I would not want to go back to playing the ingenue.

Getting older and adjusting to all the things that biologically happen to you is not easy to do and is a constant struggle and adjustment.

You can't play a high school student forever, so at some point, I'm going to have to tear down that wall and tear off that wig and be me.