I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.

It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.

I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.

I like shopping, and I like to drive.

Do what you're passionate about.

I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.

I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.

The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.

My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop.

No problem. Just drop it back off before you go, " he says, procuring a brass key. "And if he puts on Bowie's early stuff and starts sweet-talking, dammit, you run. You run as fast as you can.

No wild beasts are so deadly to humans as most Christians are to each other.

So - people a thousand years from now...This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying.

The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Don't disrespect me, lie about it, and then come smile in my face and act like nothing's wrong.

To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.

I always get pissed that I can't make my voice sound like someone from the 50s who had a very girly, innocent voice, like Leslie Gore.

Style is the way we speak to the world without words.

We need to deport these criminals and negotiate agreements requiring that they do their time in their own countries.

Willie Nelson's the one who told me the reason it costs so much to get divorced is because it's worth it.