At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.

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.

You can only destroy something that I have but you can't destroy something that I am.

It was my Uncle George who discovered alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves.

The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

If you don't want to go to college, don't go to Capital Prep. Go somewhere else.

For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.

I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.