I first read 'Tom Sawyer' when I was in 8th grade, 13 years old. I realised since that Mark Twain just bottled what it felt like to be a child.
Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.
As a performer you often feel that you're the child and everyone else is a grown-up.
Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that feels like a Third World debt? (135)
Emotionally, my ambition is not yet sated. Emotionally, I still feel like a kid at the adult's table, yearning for recognition. I'm not sure where this all comes from but it is how I feel.
I was the eldest child, so I know how it feels to have attention shared with a sibling.
Being an actor somehow can be a perverse extension of that feeling we generally all have as children, that feeling of wanting to please. Of course you're looking for affirmation, encouragement.
Mary Katherine Gallagher is an exaggerated version of me, how I felt when I was little.
Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.
Little kids definitely have desires and jealousy. There are some emotions that don't show up at birth, but by three or four, they are all there.
