I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head. Mara Wilson More Quotes by Mara Wilson More Quotes From Mara Wilson I remember feeling enormous pressure because I didn't want to be Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple was Shirley Temple, and I didn't ever feel like I could live up to that. Mara Wilson pressure want feelings Danny DeVito later told me that he knew he wanted me for 'Matilda' the second I walked in the door. I'm not sure if this is true, or if he was just being nice, but I was thrilled when I got it. Mara Wilson just-being nice doors The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare. Mara Wilson let-me film directors Of course I didn't have a boyfriend then. I didn't even have a camp boyfriend then [at age of 13]. Mara Wilson camps courses age I was such a nerd. It just wasn't something I would have wanted. And I didn't want to act like an adult. Mara Wilson nerd adults want I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better. Mara Wilson innocent pure children I guess I was a philosophical child. Mara Wilson philosophical children There were things that I knew that I was going to keep to myself. Mara Wilson The Hollywood stuff in the book tended to come later. I think it was because I was worried about leading with that stuff. I wanted to try to make sure that the other stories in the book were as interesting. I wanted to spend more time on them and craft them. The thing is, with writing, it's form or content. Mara Wilson writing book thinking I watched the video [ with my first commercial] when I was 20, and in the video, there are two families. The first family is this smiling blond Partridge family, a Californian/Aryan kind of thing, all playing guitars, all singing together and harmonizing. And then, there's my family - and in my family, it starts with my mom saying that she feels like a drill sergeant sometimes, and she's yelling at one of my brothers to stop hitting another one of my brothers. It's just like, "Great, we're that family." It felt a little Simpsons versus Flanders. Mara Wilson yelling mom brother When my oldest brother started acting. From there, I wanted to act myself. That's the long story short. Mara Wilson acting brother long Puberty was definitely difficult for me. Mara Wilson puberty difficult When you're an actor, your body isn't your own. Your body is part of a tool that you use. Everybody else there is using you as a tool, so they have access to those things, too. Mara Wilson actors tools use People think I'm smarter than I am. Mara Wilson smarter people thinking Sure, I love to read, and I love to learn, but I was always nerdy that way. Mara Wilson nerdy love-to-read way I was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius. Mara Wilson prodigies genius children 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. Mara Wilson looking-forward firsts thinking I can't even count how many times I did interviews with people and they asked me if I had a boyfriend. Keep in mind that I was, I guess, mild to moderately famous from ages 6 to 13. Of course I didn't have a boyfriend then. I didn't even have a camp boyfriend then. Mara Wilson age mind people People seem to forget what it was like to be a child. I think it's partly because they want to forget, because it usually wasn't as good as you thought it was, and so you want to skip over those things, and not have to relate to that anymore. Mara Wilson children people thinking People like to make children into little grown-ups. Mara Wilson littles children people
