Dan Levy Quotes

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

I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession.

When you are an actor or trying to be a working actor in L.A., most people have commercial agents, and then they have legitimate agents, and you just end up going on a thousand auditions.

I'm a working actress in Hollywood. You unfortunately don't get the pick of the litter when it comes to auditions and jobs.

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

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.

My daughter's wanted to be an actress since she was six years old, but I didn't want her to go through the same experiences as I did as a child actor.

Nowadays, kids... young actors... they go straight to L.A. before they've even done anything.

At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.

The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?

I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.

There's no way I'm going to put this kid in the movies, because of the rejection. It's so hard as an adult, so why set her up to feel that bad as a child?

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

We weren't a Hollywood family. We were simply a show business family.

I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.

When I moved out to L.A., I went on 156 auditions before I booked a single thing.

You know how it is in L.A. You go to restaurants at four in the afternoon, and they're packed because everyone is an actor, and no one is working.

I'm sure no one really wants to think of themselves as a child actor.

I sure don't miss going out on auditions!

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

There is so much that happens in the entertainment life, especially when you've been working from such a young age such as myself.

The only benefit of my dad being in the film industry was that I got a reality check right from the start. I wasn't delusional and didn't want to be an actor just for the glamour.

Down South, I never had to audition. They would call me up and give me a role.

My career has been a roller coaster ride. And every actor experiences that phase.

I know actors with promising careers who get blown out of the business, never to return.