People like to make children into little grown-ups.

When my oldest brother started acting. From there, I wanted to act myself. That's the long story short.

I remember my friends and I looking forward to puberty because it seemed exciting at first.

I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that.

Children change a lot in terms of personality. Camaraderie that you feel with somebody might not be there a year later.

There's a reason that girls cut off all their Barbie doll's hair and dye it and do things like that. I destroyed my Barbie dolls, and I know other girls did as well. And that's kind of the way they see kids movies and child actors in kids movies, as something that you've moved on from. It's babyish.

I didn't want to whisper and giggle about [puberty] anymore. I felt incredibly self-conscious. I felt like I was losing myself, and I was losing who I was. And that really scared me.