I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.
I was an actor who happened to be a kid.
The movies that I did in the '80s were either good or bad, but I never was oppressed with any feeling - I mean, I thought it was ridiculous to play high school or college students when I was 30. But at the same time, that was really done then.
I've played a lot of younger, more coming-of-age roles as well as roles that aren't such an imposing physical presence.
I would love to tackle an older role and have a little bit more depth, but I do get to have fun with the roles, and I'm quite happy playing young. I quite enjoy being the baby of the cast. It's fun.
In 'George Lopez', I played Veronica who's a bratty 18-year-old, and so I feel like it's much easier for me to play that because I feel like a late bloomer. It wasn't difficult or challenging at all because it's not like I haven't been a teenager.
It's not so much that I'd like to play a raunchy character, but I would like to play someone my own age. I'm always playing down, but I guess it's good because it means I've got a longer life in my acting career.
I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.
I often played nice guys when I was younger, and it's nice to be able to explore the darker side.
I never played an ingenue.
I've always played different kinds of roles, and I probably played more vulnerable parts when I was really young.
As a person who wants to see and believe in the story, I don't think women at age 50 are able to sing young girls.
Hopefully I won't be 35 still playing a 16-year-old.
I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.
My young face keeps me in the running for youthful roles. If my face is going to look 22 then so should my body.
I was used to playing misled youth, rough-and-tumble guys. It was nice to get back to a big-hearted, warm and gentle soul, a guy who is destined for something a lot larger than he ever expected.
I can play younger. It's better to be playing younger because you've got that experience, and it's hard to play older when you're younger.
There is always this thing of will you get too old for your part? But people are playing a lot younger than they actually are in real life. I don't think it's as big an issue as a lot of people are making it out to be.
As a teenager, I played men in my first two plays.
I love it when I get to play characters that are much younger than I am in real life. I feel it's an advantage.
It hasn't been until the last couple years that I've started playing close to my age. But it's fun playing the younger roles because it takes you back to the teen years.
All the Shakespeare parts are for young women, mostly.
I think I did a lot of humorous films when I was young, and they were No. 1 films.
I'm in a position now where I can play certain roles and when I get older, I won't be able to. So, I don't have a strategy of trying to grow up too quick, I just want to kind of look at everything.
Any time you get a role that's a young person, that resembles what it's like to be a teenager, I always kind of jump at it.
