I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty.

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.

I and my silences keep talking to each other.

Reality is just a matter of perception.

Things were good. He had things to look forward to. That, for now, was to be his definition of living - to always have a thing to look forward to.

I'm adding moves to my post game. I'm really working on staying low. I'm working on my strength overall, especially my legs. That's going to help me defensively as well.

I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, everything. I'm an avid reader of every women's health newsletter from every hospital in the country.

For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.

Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write.

Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands - a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.

Man is remembered by his deeds.

We all trust each other to some extent. We have to rely on experts to some extent, but we should learn to be sceptical.