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I was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius.

Mara Wilson

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Mara Wilson
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: July 24
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Burbank
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Mara Elizabeth Wilson
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Sure, I love to read, and I love to learn, but I was always nerdy that way.
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I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted.
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People view child actors the same way that girls treat their Barbie dolls.
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There's a reason that girls cut off all their Barbie doll's hair and dye it and do things like that. I destroyed my Barbie dolls, and I know other girls did as well. And that's kind of the way they see kids movies and child actors in kids movies, as something that you've moved on from. It's babyish.
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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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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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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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I've never considered myself cool, and I don't think I ever will be. Honestly, it's better that way. It's much less pressure.
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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.
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People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.
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I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again.
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If I ever have children of my own, they will read Matilda. They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see Matilda: The Musical.
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Of course I didn't have a boyfriend then. I didn't even have a camp boyfriend then [at age of 13].
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I was such a nerd. It just wasn't something I would have wanted. And I didn't want to act like an adult.
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I'm surprised by how much I remember.
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Children change a lot in terms of personality. Camaraderie that you feel with somebody might not be there a year later.
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I was very aware of being younger than everybody on set.
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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.
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Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.
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