For me [being a kid actor], it's a bit like when you see your mom's friends, and they're like, "I remember when you were this big. You'll always be that cute little kid to me." It's like that times a thousand. Well, times a couple thousand.

Of course I didn't have a boyfriend then. I didn't even have a camp boyfriend then [at age of 13].

Puberty was definitely difficult for me. I remember my friends and I looking forward to puberty because it seemed exciting at first. You read Judy Blume and you think, "This is kind of cool." But when it actually started happening to me, I was terrified.

It's easier to see children as mini adults than it is to imagine or to remember what it is to be a child again.

I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Hollywood didn't really want me anymore, and I was like, 'Yeah, I don't really want you, either.'

People want to bring kids to their level, and they want to make it seem like kids have this thing. It's seen as funny to them.

People view child actors the same way that girls treat their Barbie dolls.