Sadie Sink Quotes

There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.

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

I find that a lot of child actors are ruined once they've done a job.

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

'Parenthood' has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.

A lot of child actors keep acting for the wrong reasons.

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.

A lot of people don't like child actors.

I'm glad to be an actor to be employed by people who are now 12, probably. I look forward to that.

I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.

Most child actors, once they hit 18, once they hit 21, that's it. Even teenage kids often don't make the transition.

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

I feel so sorry for younger actors who aren't able to have the opportunities that I had, starting out in repertory theatre. It's really tough on young actors now.

I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.

I once said to someone, 'If I could shave my head and wear no makeup and get a part just on my talent, I would be the happiest person in the world.'

I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.

I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.

Child actors don't have great track records.

I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.

People have different expectations when you're younger - it's less about changing yourself into a character; they want a more natural thing. And they just want you to be able to turn up every day and carry on working. They have a horrible fear of 10- or 11-year-olds, that they're going to say 'I don't want to play today.'

To be honest, it's considered very late to start acting at 11 and a half, for the industry. Most kids are doing it from toddlerhood on.

Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.

You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.

The fact of the matter is that we're all aging, and there's this stigma that older actresses don't work as much as younger actresses, and I don't think that's true anymore.