Latest Mara Wilson Quotes from Interviews

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• Whereas when I was a teenager, other teenagers didn't want anything to do with me. It was even like that in college to a degree. People of that age don't want anything to do with their childhood, because they had put away childish things, and they're trying to distance themselves.

  Mara Wilson

  Distance, Teenager, College

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all? So my grades weren't great, but I feel like, is there any other way that I could have gotten into NYU? I don't know. I think that it definitely worked in my favor in some ways.

  Mara Wilson

  School, Thinking, Nyu

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I was getting keys for my apartment, and I asked if I could get doubles, because I'm forgetful, and the woman there said, "Yeah, but it costs $5." I was like, "Oh, okay." But then she said, "Actually, you know what, I'm just going to give it to you for free. You were in that movie Mrs. Doubtfire, and that movie really helped me out in a time when I needed it. It got me through something, and it made me laugh when I needed to laugh.

  Mara Wilson

  Keys, Giving, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Mara Wilson

  Brother, Long, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I thought I started acting at 5 or 6, it was really when they were interviewing real families for a toothpaste commercial. They interviewed our family.

  Mara Wilson

  Real, Acting, Toothpaste

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

  Mom, Brother, Yelling

  Source: www.avclub.com

• There were things that I knew that I was going to keep to myself.

  Mara Wilson

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I guess I was a philosophical child.

  Mara Wilson

  Children, Philosophical

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better.

  Mara Wilson

  Children, Innocent, Pure

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I remember reading To Kill A Mockingbird when I was 12. What I liked about it is that it was all seen through a child's eyes. It was Harper Lee going back and writing it from the way a child would see those things.

  Mara Wilson

  Children, Reading, Eye

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted.

  Mara Wilson

  Adults, Kind, All Kinds

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Mara Wilson

  Age, Camps, Courses

  Source: www.avclub.com

• David Sedaris wrote in one of his books that people like to make children into little grown-ups, which to him is about as funny as a dog in sunglasses.

  Mara Wilson

  Dog, Children, Book

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Mara Wilson

  Kids, People, Levels

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Children change a lot in terms of personality. Camaraderie that you feel with somebody might not be there a year later. That group might not have the same chemistry. So I completely understand why they're rushing into it, because they probably feel like they have to.

  Mara Wilson

  Children, Rushing, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I felt like I had to be conscious of myself as a girl for the first time. I had to be more feminine. I had to look a certain way. And it's something that you want to suffer in silence, but I would go onto movie sets and they would bring out bras that were basically binders, because there were continuity problems between months.

  Mara Wilson

  Girl, Silence, Suffering

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Mara Wilson

  Firsts, Looking Forward, Remember

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

  Self, Want, Scared

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Puberty was definitely difficult for me.

  Mara Wilson

  Difficult, Puberty

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I had so many adults around me reminding me that I was a kid. I also had a lot of adults saying things to me like, "When I was your age..." and sort of idealizing it. I didn't like that they idealized it.

  Mara Wilson

  Kids, Age, Adults

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I would go to the craft services table and have Oreos or whatever, and a grown woman would come up to me and look at what I was eating and sigh and go, "I remember the days when I could eat like that." And I never knew what to say that, because I was 9.

  Mara Wilson

  Oreos, Looks, Crafts

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I was very aware of being younger than everybody on set.

  Mara Wilson

  Source: www.avclub.com