You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.

People are hungry for messages of hope and life. What are you broadcasting?

I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.

Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite.

Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.

The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.

The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies.

Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.

Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you.

You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.

Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.

Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but everyday is a clean state and a fresh opportunity.

I have no heartbeat

Text, images, and video are the paint swatches of 21st-century artists — with a single catch: this form of art has to communicate, engage, and sell.

Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.

That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.

People want to see big, escapist fare. They don't want to be challenged to think.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

Die Kunst ist ewig, ihre Formen wandeln sich. (The art is eternal, their shapes are changing.)

People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.