Jenny Lewis Quotes

I didn't grow up as child actor.

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

A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.

I don't know what it's like to be an actor, where if your show gets canceled, really you're just a bum.

I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.

People tell me that Hollywood loves new faces, but I don't know. They're probably just being nice.

I was not a child star. I was more like a young auditioner.

My family aren't performers. They're just normal people. They don't understand this entertainment world. They just think it's mental. They have no idea what I'm doing in America.

I think the life of an actor is very glamorous to other people - then, realities set in.

In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that.

I did the whole struggling actor thing and lucked into being in the right place at the right time and getting involved in the first 'High School Musical.'

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 never really thought I wanted to become a movie star.

I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

It's funny, I lived my first 38 years of my life with maybe one or two people ever saying that I looked like Greg Kinnear. As soon as I get into the entertainment industry, now it's 100 percent of people.

I had no dream of being a movie star.

I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals.

I moved to L.A., and I lived in the Oakland Apartments, which is this notorious hub for actor children and their stage moms. For the first few years that I lived there, Hilary Duff and Frankie Muniz frequented the apartments. I was much younger than them at the time.

I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor.

My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.

I don't necessarily need Hollywood.

Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.

Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place.