I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever.

My favorite pastime is to write.

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

There is a weirdness about having a famous pre-pubescent in the house when you are going through the trials and tribulations of adolescence.

Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks.

My motto in life is, 'If anything is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.'

When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it.

If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two.

I'm really going to miss me.

There's nothing like turning on the radio and listening to the high-speed chase that you're leading police on!

I think I would have had less tumult in my life if I hadn't grown up in my particular house.

Always listen to your inner voice, your instincts

The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.

There are very few self-made millionaires, if any, who have not taken risks which would make the rest of us unable to sleep at night, or keep our food down.

The X-Games - I watch that; I'm not impressed. That's white dudes' desperation. They're running out of sports. They gotta find something that black dudes won't touch.

When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.

I was born into a Catholic family. I grew up in West Belfast. Faith was very important to us eight children and my mother and father. It was grounded in the Christian tradition of social involvement.

On Teasing : Teach your teen-age daughters not to tease boys into physical desire. You might save their lives.

Actually... I'm starting a new thing and rebelling against ridiculously high heels. It's inhumane.

We women, when we're searching for a meaning to our lives or for the path of knowledge, always identify with one of four classic archetypes.

Without vision a people perishes.