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.

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.

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.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.

When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work.

On wedding day you should look like yourself at your most beautiful

If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.

I really like to write, so I can just relax and think about things and realize things and then try to express it on my computer.

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily.