I like shopping, and I like to drive.

It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.

I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.

Do what you're passionate about.

I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.

I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.

I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.

The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.

My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop.

Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.

There are lots of guys around the world that are lazy. They have big fat guts. They talk about chi power and things they can do, but don't believe it.

The question is: How do we succeed in Iraq? And you don't succeed by leaving before the mission is complete, like some in this political process are suggesting.

Whatever thrills you, anything you love to do, just say - Someday, I will.

We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted article.

Once discover comfort, and there is no turning back.

An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.

I'm kind of proud of myself. I've been able to keep a certain grace about me, even in the times of disgrace and craziness.

A man usually falls in love with the woman who asks the kind of questions he is able to answer.

No risk? Then no danger of losing and finally no thrill in winning.