I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me.

My favorite pastime is to write.

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

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!

How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how…If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

To be a good actor you really have to want to act first.

There is an expectation with a superhero film that there is spectacle and action but there also has to be heart. Striking that balance is really important.

Show me your dreams. Let me make them come true.

When will all the rhetorical questions end?

A new calling can beckon us away from comfortable routine and from competencies already acquired.

The immortality of the soul is assented to rather than believed, believed rather than lived.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.