Child Actors Quotes

“From the smoothness of their skin, the length of their hemlines, the banality of their song lyrics and sitcom plots, these young stars embody an ideal of teenage innocence that adults are grateful to embrace. For as many seasons as the illusion can be maintained they remain, at least on screen, uncomplicated, untroubled good girls on the verge of, but never actually awakening to, their sexuality.
There is a lot of money to be made and a lot of parental anxiety to be tapped by walking that line.
There is also a lot of fury unleashed at those who step across it. When young stars pose semi-nude or get caught drinking they threaten the notion that our own daughter's coming of age could be effortless. Suddenly the role models, who perpetuated that myth, become the vector of our fears. The betrayal feels personal and cuts deep.”
― Peggy Orenstein, Don't Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life

“It’s like they all worked at a nuclear power plant with a bad reactor, and when they get cancer we all just point and laugh at their tumors,” Mae says.”
― Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

“...and some are fortunate enough to return to the anonymity of conventional life.”
― Alec Hirschfeld, What the Camera Didn't See: A Cameraman's Journey from New York to Denmark, Spain, the Caribbean, Hollywood and Back