Seth Green Quotes

I grew up on camera. I started at 16.

My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.

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

If you don't get famous when you're a kid, it makes the transition to adult actor easier.

I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

I actually got more attention from one episode of 'The Sopranos' than I did from two years of 'The L Word.'

I guess I'm just a normal kid apart from the acting.

My brother, Chris Massey from 'Zoey 101', was acting first at a young age. I just followed in my sibling's footsteps.

I was famous from birth.

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

I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.

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

The people who think I'm famous are knitters. Most of my life, I'm wildly unrecognized.

Acting, as a child, I remember being lots of fun. I know it must have been very stressful on my parents, since auditions were unpredictable, and they both worked full time jobs.

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

I literally was famous before I knew my own name.

I was on a Swedish soap opera when I was 10.

I don't want to be famous. I want to tell stories.

I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.

I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life.

When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.

I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in 'Les Miserables' and 'The Sound of Music,' and my mum's an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn't find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping.

I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.

It never really worked out for me in my own country. They said, 'You're not famous enough for the lead roles, and you're too present for the supporting roles - you'd overpower the lead.'

I didn't grow up as child actor.