Mauro Ranallo Quotes

I was never famous as a kid. That's the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn't famous as a kid.

I didn't grow up as child actor.

I was a child actor but not a child star.

All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all.

In show business, you had levels. I was at the top of the TV end of it.

I know that everyone wants to know about 'Downton Abbey,' but the truth is that it was only a few days out of my life. Still, you play a distinctive part on a hit series, and everyone suddenly knows who you are. Isn't it crazy how this business works?

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

Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.

I started doing movies when I was 14.

Although early on, I did not think of showbiz, I dreamed of being on TV and becoming a celebrity.

I was a boy that grew up in front of the world on television. Now I'm a man.

I had always wanted to be on TV; my mom told me that when I was little, I told her I wanted to be a 'modeler,' because that's what I called actors on TV.

When I was seven, I was allowed to be an extra in 'Parenthood,' which was amazing. But then I kind of got addicted to it, and my parents didn't want me to want to act. They felt that would be putting your kid in an adult world.

Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.

Joey, my older brother, had his own TV show in the '50s, along with Cathy Callahan.

I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?

It's bad enough that I'm an actress that wants to be recognized as an actress. Instead, I am known for doing game shows.

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

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

If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.

I owe my whole acting career to the fact that I'm a singer. I went out to Los Angeles and auditioned for a TV show called 'Fame L.A.' The original role was for a comedian, but they said I wasn't very funny, so they asked me, 'What else can you do?' So I played a singer.

I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.

In all honesty I think that I've had a very normal life, even though I've been making movies since I was 9.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.