Dante Basco Quotes

I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.

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

At times, I feel sorry for kids who have succumbed in some kind of way to being a child actor.

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

I was kind of advanced for my age, just because I started early, when I was maybe 6 or 7 years old. And my dad always had me playing with older groups.

I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.

I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life.

The next time a former child star is in the news, look at the age at which he or she started performing. Then imagine making a life-changing decision at that age. Chances are good he or she wasn't the one who made it.

There's inevitably something missing when you grow up in this kind of an environment when your parents travel a lot. When your father is famous, you are looked at and expected of. There are standards you need to meet.

I'm 25, but I was a kid on the set. But everybody was really great.

I was a blond-haired kid with blue eyes, growing up in an Italian ghetto. I had a very high IQ. In elementary school, I skipped ahead twice. I was 10 years old when everyone else was 12.

It's kind of a crazy thing with kid actors because a lot of them get hired without people really knowing if they're good or not. They get hired for the way they look at a really young age. You also have your fingers crossed around kid actors... because the lessons they learn on set aren't always the best. You can really get whatever you want.

The time period I had in my life to look like an idiot and fail, and for no one to see that, came and went when I was 17. When you have early success, people are just lying in wait.

The scariest thing about receiving praise at a young age is the fear of burning out or losing it, or proving people right that you were just a novelty. Obviously, I can see mistakes in things that I've done or said and can see flaws in things I've made, but that's just part of growing.

I got in the limelight at a young age. At age 19, people were already comparing me to Anderson Silva.

It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know.

My mum did really well raising me and my brother by herself. I know it was a struggle, and even from a young age, when I was boxing, it was always to make my mother proud.

The perils of success at a young age is being afraid to make a mistake.

You look more like a legend when you accomplish a lot at a young age.

Obviously, making my debut at such a young age, people put a lot of pressure on you.

As a youngster, I got so much attention because I was ahead of the other kids - even when I was eight, nine years old. But I never was really seeking attention, so I didn't care about scoring 30, 40 points.

Football players have to grow up very fast. It's a tough life sometimes.

When Beyonce began singing in earnest, she was 10 years old.

I wanted to be an endurance athlete from a young age. I remember being in a careers class at school and saying I wanted to be a professional athlete and the teacher replying, 'You're not going to make it; it's not possible.'

There was something in Nick, becoming the Broadway star that he was and working from the age of 7, being on Broadway for four years, and then doing the music.