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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.

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Mara Wilson
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: July 24
Actress
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Burbank
California
Mara Elizabeth Wilson
Dancing
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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.
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People view child actors the same way that girls treat their Barbie dolls.
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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.'
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My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.
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People think I'm smarter than I am.
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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.
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It is strange to have everybody in the world still think of you as a child.
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People like to make children into little grown-ups.
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I remember my friends and I looking forward to puberty because it seemed exciting at first.
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I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted. I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better. I guess I was a philosophical child.
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I was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius.
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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.
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It definitely is something that can get frustrating, because you want to live life on your own terms, and it feels for a while like you can't. But I've come to understand that I got to have all these amazing experiences that other people don't have. So this is the trade-off.
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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.
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Very sad, very upset, very glad I did not have to hear about this though Twitter. Probably going to be taking some time off it for a while.
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Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.
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I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted.
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I was very aware of being younger than everybody on set.
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I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?
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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?
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