Do people think I'm cool because I was in a movie when I was a child? No. Well, maybe a little bit more than they used to. There's definitely a nostalgia factor. Mara Wilson More Quotes by Mara Wilson More Quotes From Mara Wilson People view child actors the same way that girls treat their Barbie dolls. Mara Wilson barbie-dolls girl children I remember my friends and I looking forward to puberty because it seemed exciting at first. Mara Wilson looking-forward remember firsts 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. Mara Wilson scared self want I'm in my late 20s, and people are coming around to it again. I think they're realizing how much this stuff affects them. I think all the time about how much Judy Blume affected me, or Beverly Cleary. And I think that now some people are starting to come around and get more of an appreciation for [my stuff]. Mara Wilson appreciation people thinking I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of me. I was playing a lot of cute characters, a lot of little girls; I was objectified. And I don't want people to think of me as that because it's not who I am, and because I've seen a lot of hostility towards that image. Mara Wilson i-am me cute people I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me. Mara Wilson parents me dance art Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing. Mara Wilson me friends sometimes love 'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say? Mara Wilson myself you sometimes people Assume everything you put on the Internet can and will be seen not only by the person you're talking about, but your future romantic partners and bosses, too. Mara Wilson you future internet romantic 'Matilda' was my favorite movie to film and my favorite to watch, as well. Mara Wilson favorite watch well film Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at least three former ones having very public breakdowns. Mara Wilson child alive stars time
