Mara Wilson Quotes

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.

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

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.

Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.

I guess I was a philosophical child.

The idea of living forever makes me uncomfortable, and at this point I've lived long enough and seen enough Twilight Zone episodes to know that there's always a catch.

Assume everything you put on the Internet can and will be seen not only by the person you're talking about, but your future romantic partners and bosses, too.

In the book, you lost your powers. In the movie, you chose not to use them as much. I guess I did a little of both.

As an adult, most of my friends are women . . . they, too, had that moment when they realized they were all the “other girls, ” and that every girl in the world is, too.