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"At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work"

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Morgan Brittany’s line lands with the quiet sting of someone describing a vanishing act in real time: one day you’re a “very well established” asset, the next you’re an increasingly complicated liability. The bluntness matters. She doesn’t romanticize the “business” or blame a single villain; she frames it as a structural shift in demand, like a market cooling. That choice makes the subtext sharper: Hollywood’s affection is often less personal than transactional, calibrated to whatever face fits the current casting slot.

The key tension is embedded in “as I grew up.” It’s not that she stopped being skilled; it’s that her body changed. Child acting comes with neatly defined archetypes and a steady pipeline of roles that require innocence, smallness, pliability. Adolescence, especially for girls, is the industry’s awkward middle chapter: no longer the cute kid, not yet the bankable adult romantic lead, suddenly subject to a harsher gaze and narrower types. “Less and less work” reads like the slow drip of opportunities drying up, a professional erosion that can feel both inevitable and deeply unfair.

Contextually, Brittany grew up inside the studio-to-TV ecosystem that loved dependable child performers but offered weak scaffolding for the transition years. The intent here isn’t gossip; it’s a testimony about how fame can be age-graded, and how an identity built on being wanted can wobble when the phone stops ringing. The line’s power is its restraint: a plain sentence that exposes an industry skilled at turning puberty into unemployment.

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Brittany, Morgan. (n.d.). At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/at-the-time-i-was-growing-up-in-the-business-i-57147/

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Brittany, Morgan. "At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work." FixQuotes. Accessed February 3, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/at-the-time-i-was-growing-up-in-the-business-i-57147/.

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"At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/at-the-time-i-was-growing-up-in-the-business-i-57147/. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.

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Morgan Brittany (born December 5, 1951) is a Actress from USA.

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