I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn't sleep with them, or do drugs with them.

People are hungry for messages of hope and life. What are you broadcasting?

I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.

Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite.

Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.

You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.

The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.

The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies.

Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.

Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you.

You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

Performing is one thing, and day-to-day stuff - like the way you talk to people - is totally different. If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

I love going to the movies and being moved emotionally. I like my work, singing and writing in my journal.

Sunday is my favorite day.

Make not thyself the judge of any man.

I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger.

Every human being is a Muslim by nature, not by religious practice. By nature!

I'm not tryin' to come off as the best lyricist.

We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech.