I've been through a lot of struggles, even though I'm young.

Baking is my business, and it will always come first.

You never know when you're going to get an opportunity.

When you're six years old, you don't look at things the way an adult looks at things.

Living on the Gulf Coast, we often have to go through dangerous situations, whether you're a child, an adult or a senior citizen.

My kids are the most important people in the world to me.

Everything that I do in my life is geared towards my kids and their survival and giving them the best education that I can possibly give them and the best home that I can possibly give them.

I love California. I love Hollywood.

I can't pass on an acting career to my kids. But I'm going to try to juggle both.

They say I'm a natural, I have natural charisma. People say that. I don't know.

I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'

Sadness is never bad, " said Amparo. "Sadness is the mirror of being happy

Vulnerability supported by love is perhaps the most powerful catalyst for real connection.

Do you ride?"She smiled, her fingers lightly sliding around his ear. "Not since I hit that barn"Zach’s hands paused on her flesh. "You hit a barn?" "I had to avoid the cow

If you respect yourself, you will respect others.

Harboring anger, hatred and resentment within you, is containing the venom within you. You are the only one affected...

It's hard to tread lightly when you continue to accumulate.

It's a fault line where the flotsam and energy that washes up from the Pacific collides with all of urban America crashing in from the other direction.

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

I like to be directed, but when I'm flying and I'm on fire, I don't want someone coming and getting in my way just because they feel like they need to.

It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.