Clint Eastwood Quotes

Kids play pretend. I think that kids can be the best actors.

I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.

Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.

It's very hard to find a good child actor. There are a lot of child actors out there, especially in America, and they're cute kids, but most child actors appear on sitcoms where their main role is to be cute and make funny little remarks.

Children are very strong and independent characters and can come up with more interesting things than Marlon Brando, and it's sometimes very difficult to direct or order them to do something.

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.

I love kids; I think they are fun and funny.

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

I am always fascinated by the way kids create their own world. That is something I am very attentive to anywhere I go.

To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

I love working with children and this young boy, Thomas Sangster, is quite a remarkable young actor. He raises your game, you know. He certainly raised mine.

I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.

My daughter has a vivid imagination, and so does my son.

Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.

It's tough to work with kids. Kids are animals!

Preschool children are virtuosos of imagination.

You can't be bad when you're working with a kid. They have the instincts that all great actors have.

I've always been interested in creating things for kids.

The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.

Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit.

I really, really love children and I think probably among children is when I feel mostly berated. It's not like I feel like oh, there's some children here. I have to tone it down. I go nuts with children especially when I ain't got none. So when I'm round my mates' children, I jest them kids up first. I swear at them, I get more worked up, I say crazy stuff to them, fill their heads with nonsense and then I leave them.

Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true of the purest form of play: the unstructured, self-motivated, imaginative, independent kind, where children initiate their own games and even invent their own rules.

You can learn a lot from children because they see things new every day. That's the beauty of what you want to achieve as an artist - seeing things in a different way. Kids are constantly saying things that are funny and surprising and their observations are just... you know, they're like little artists themselves.

The smaller and younger kids are, the more patient you have to be. But if they're gifted, then it's a wonderful present that you're given by having a child like that in your film... more so than in the case of actors because, for example, if you ask them to play a lion, they don't then play a lion, they actually are a lion. So, a gifted child is something very special. On the other hand, if a child has no gifts in that way it's absolutely hopeless and there's nothing you can do!