It was a lot of auditions and tapings and stuff like that.

The Professional Children's School, it's for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note and leave. I didn't really like school all that much.

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.

A week before shooting, they told me, You don't have the part, yet. We're still trying to find a handicapped kid who can act. Either that or we break your legs.

I think people are going to keep asking me about Macaulay. Some things change and some things don't.

The whole family is tight. We all really love each other.

The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.

They put me in a whole body suit, from my neck to my ankles. It was so bad, I couldn't straighten my legs.

I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules.

I don't know how long I'll be trick or treating. Maybe I'll be 80 years old and still trick or treating.

I liked a lot of the scenes I did with Ryan Phillippe.

I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.

Igby was a really good opportunity for me to grow up. The cast was great.

It was a lot of auditions and tapings and stuff like that.

When I worked on Altar Boys, they wanted to see us having fun. The four of us would have fun on set and steal each other's lines, and mess with the director.

I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.

Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.

Stay focused, ignore the distractions, and you will accomplish your goals much faster.

A certain amount of impatience may be useful to stimulate and motivate us to action. However, I believe that a lack of patience is a major cause of the difficulties and unhappiness in the world today.

They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I received my primary and secondary education in Chicago.

Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

I started singing when I was about 3 and dancing soon after. Mom just started looking for outlets where I could perform and availed herself of any opportunity she could in the mountains of North Carolina in the '70s.

Consider your own place in the universal oneness of which we are all a part, from which we all arise, and to which we all return.

While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch.

When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.

Every day I think, 'Gosh, I wish I could be like George Carlin, Bill Maher: I want that edge.' But every time I start to get that edgy thing, I get kind of mean.

They're - FBI agents are some of the finest people you'll find anyplace in the country or the world. And I'm lucky to have the opportunity to work with them.

I do personal appearances, and I meet my fans, and I am genuinely honored that they come out to say 'hello' and just to see me. It's so fantastic to see that they give it back.

It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.

It's suddenly practical to do very high quality video wirelessly over mobile devices, and we're just in the early days of that.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being.

Networking is all about connecting with people. But then again, isn't that what life is about? The more time you can find to get out of the office and build true friendships, the farther your startup will go. Entrepreneurs need to remember to spend as much time working on their business as they do in their business.

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

I always find it funny when I watch actors talking about, 'I chose to do this part.' A lot of times it's 'you're lucky to get the job.' We're like, 'Thank you so much.'

I was inadvertently raised in the 'gay community.' I had straight parents, but I spent massive amounts of time at a very early age with gay, theater-hopeful thirty-somethings.

People who never had enough thrift and forethought to buy and pay for property in the first place seldom have enough to keep property up after they have gained it in some other way.

If you watch 'E.T.' and say that there are holes in the story because this alien lands, then don't go to the movie! It drives me insane.

I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.