I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.

Elisabeth Moss

Actor Being Child Child Actor Daughter Ever Famous Feel First Grace Grounded Happened Hit Just Kept Kid Me Never Playing Really Saving Saving Grace Show Star Teenager Until Way West West Wing Who Wing Working

Related Quotes

To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief.

— Elisabeth Moss

I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.

— Saoirse Ronan

ActorChildChild Actor

I knew with The West Wing that that wasn't going to be for very long, that I was just the red herring.

— William Devane

Oh, my only - if I had one frustration in being on 'West Wing' is I wasn't on it enough, because I was in and out.

— Stockard Channing

BecauseBeingEnough

At times, I feel sorry for kids who have succumbed in some kind of way to being a child actor.

ActorBeingChild