I'm not the Hollywood type of person.

Baking is my business, and it will always come first.

You never know when you're going to get an opportunity.

When you're six years old, you don't look at things the way an adult looks at things.

Living on the Gulf Coast, we often have to go through dangerous situations, whether you're a child, an adult or a senior citizen.

My kids are the most important people in the world to me.

Everything that I do in my life is geared towards my kids and their survival and giving them the best education that I can possibly give them and the best home that I can possibly give them.

I love California. I love Hollywood.

I can't pass on an acting career to my kids. But I'm going to try to juggle both.

They say I'm a natural, I have natural charisma. People say that. I don't know.

I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'

Why that was the stars, my little ones, ' growled Kar, lifting his proud eyes to the endless heavens. 'For in the beginning, there was light.

Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us.

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

Because I don't have everything I want. Not even close.

I want to go behind the scenes as well as on screen. I think you have to make your own destiny in this world.

I fell headfirst into a sinkhole of pretty things, and the world inside your eyelids is just as big as the one outside.

I've looked at life from both sides now...from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all.

Nature allowed only the fit and the lucky to share this paradise-in-the-making.

I love the fall. I love it because of the smells that you speak of; and also because things are dying, things that you don't have to take care of anymore, and the grass stops growing.

Our own opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections.