Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide.

I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.

Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together.

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.

I wanted to go to regular high school- it looked like a lot of fun.

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.

We each had to spend a week out at Lassie's ranch, and whoever got along best with the dog got the part.

Yeah, dog was this man's best friend, for sure.

Many people who became successful were once first time global failures. But because they didn't give up on their dreams, failure could not sink them. They triumphed at last!

Lily white’s petals are at my feet anticipating the moment in which adventure and odyssey meet.

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

YOU YOU YOU your eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edges a book of myths in which i do not appear.

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.

By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.

My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'

Now that this torch is lit, we do not have time to dilly dally around.

Even if you're an adult you still have secrets and scandals following you.