You've got to hang on to who you are, what you are. Don't let anyone take it from you.

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.

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

Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.

Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.

As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?

I don't want to be myself, ever. I'm terrible at a snapshot. Terrible. I blink all the time. I've got facial Tourette's. Unless I'm working and in that zone, I'm not very good at pictures, really.

"He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

Philosophy is unbelievably inspiring to me.