Morgan Brittany Quotes

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

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.

Not a lot of people make that transition from child actor to bigger, better roles.

Child actors going on to become adult actors never really works, apart from a few. Jodie Foster was the exception.

We have seen many child actors who have gone astray. They were particular that 'Zakhm' was going to be my last film as a child actor and after that I took a six year break for education.

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

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

Child actors don't have great track records.

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.

I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers.

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

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.

Navigating the transition from child actor to an adult actor isn't easy.

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

It's a difficult world for lots of child actors, and it's difficult to be a teenager under any circumstances. Add to that notoriety and fame, and things can go really wrong. But I had a terrific family and grew up very normal in Phoenix.

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

There's a lot of focus on kids like Macaulay Culkin or others who had bad situations at some point in their careers and not enough focus on the people who do good like Natalie Portman or Claire Danes. It's hard for children to have these full-time jobs with all this responsibility.

Frankly, there is no shorter shelf life other than that of a child actor, than that of the ingenue.

I just feel like you have to go through this crazy transition if you're going to continue on with your career from a child star to an adult star.

Television is a big platform for actors, and so many actors have made it to films from there. And for me, too, it has been a great transition from the small screen to the big screen.

Growing up as a child actress, I was tutored on movie and TV sets.

I think, often, child actors are, like, overlooked a little bit.

When I joined the industry, people were not very appreciative of models turning to acting.

My teacher at RADA said I was going to have trouble when I left because I wasn't an obvious juvenile lead, although I could do both comedy and drama. But I understood enough to know that my career was going to be a marathon, not a sprint.

For two consecutive Broadway seasons, I had probably the best juvenile roles there were for an actor. Then I moved to California to recreate my role in the film version of 'Tribute.' I started working in film and television after that, and 38 years blew by!