Some locations are so terrible, you can't even breathe, and you still have to act.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world.

There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.

Advice is such a tricky thing when you're young.

For a child actor, its a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

When I'm not working, I definitely I like waking up at noon.

In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.

A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.

I think everyone should follow their instincts, and go with what they feel, and follow their heart.

You can learn to write by writing.

... but in the winter they were ensconced in a white powder of sparkling snow.

Gods tender mercies are over all His creatures.

Tears on yo'ur mother's eyes are havier than Ocean waters.

For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.

If you work at rap and look at it as an art, the money will come. But if you try to get the money, it'll just always be shallow.

You grow up Latin in this country and you're a third class citizen from the word go, and so you have to deal with everything around you from that point of view and trying to feel entitled.

When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.

I'm a guy who works very hard and if I want something bad enough, I'm going to do anything possible to get it.

Friends are like stars, they come and go, but the ones that stay are the ones that glow.