There's a lot of pressure on kids, period, just to be successful in life.

My immediate family is real close-knit.

Never thought I'd be a bobble-head, but little did I know.

I'm a happy person, and I want everybody else to be happy. Nothing wrong with that.

Singing a melody is like a lot of easier and when you sing harmony you have to really kind of know music and listen to the music and be able to hear the notes or whatever.

I don't know if people really know, when you shoot a TV show like you're really family and it really works, it's because it seems real to everybody, even to us. We were all so very close.

I was always pretty funny with my friends.

Kids have awkward moments.

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

I owe a lot to Nickelodeon.

I always just want to do non-typical voices for some reason.

My mother told me that truth is like my skin, a beautiful, protective covering, and the things that people say or do can be easily changed or discarded. She told me truth comes from the heart.

You become greater than what you conquer within.

It took me 25 years for me to realize who I am. Now I'm going to use the next 75 years to focus on how I want to be remembered. One quarter down, three to go!

We can be of many nations, but earth is our land.We can be of many races, but we are just one clan.

There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do that I have not been able to accomplish.

I'm always trying to look for how I can find human stories that aren't just dramas.

When walking into the lair of the dragon after robbing his hoard, the least you could do is hold you head high [...]

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.

I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.