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

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.

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

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.

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

I don't have problems. I am a writer. I am the problem.

It wasn’t that she believed in voodoo, precisely—but she believed in the people who believed in voodoo—and that was scary enough. -Coralee Ayers

A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself.

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

Vision without passion is a picture without possibilities.

And that vest won't help, cuz I'm aimin' at yo scalp

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

Do you qualify to be alive or is the limit of your senses so as to survive?

No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire.

A true war story is never moral.