Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.
Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.
I went to work at 11 years old. I became governor. It's not a big deal. Work doesn't hurt anybody. I'm all for not allowing a 12-year-old to work 40 hours. But a 12-year-old working eight to 10 hours a week or a 14-year-old working 12 to 15 hours a week is not bad.
To work with kids is difficult. To work with non-actors is difficult.
There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.
A boy has to peddle his book.
I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.
Twins work really well in the industry because child labor laws dictate a baby, as an example, can only work for, like, an hour a day.
I've worked with a lot of kids, and when you're working with kids they have certain hours that they have to work.
Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.
I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met.
I see what kids in the business have to watch. It's tough to do.
