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

I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty.

Once you sell yourself, it's over. You've got nothing left.

I've played killers, crazies, and really bad people.

The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.

Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.

I feel bad about a lot of the movies I see that teach kids that if they do bad, they'll win.

I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.

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

My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually.

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.

I played a real nasty little girl but most of the roles I had up until then were very sweet and very nice.

People are hungry for messages of hope and life.

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

I thought I would keep the first name Susan and change the last name but I picked up this book and as I opened it the lead character in it was called Morgan Brittany.

I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

Drugs won't enhance your performance.

Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.

Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you.

I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn't sleep with them, or do drugs with them.

You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.

Well, our children do know what this industry is about, but they have a good grip on who they are.

Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.

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.

Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight.

I don't have the ability to find a middle ground with my audiences, and I know this too well.

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

Four years is a long time in politics.

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

Fairness is not an attitude. Its a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.

There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him.

I live in Dublin God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in Italy France Manhattan but I like the climate here and Irish light seems to be essential for me and for my writing.

The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.

If you want to have plastic surgery or cosmetic surgery, live it up; go ahead and have it. But if you don't want to have it, don't have it.

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.

I don't want to only play the leading man for the rest of my career.

I like challenging parts, something I haven't done yet, something that scares me. There's just a feeling I get when I read a script that I love, I feel an attachment to it, a yearning to play that character.

Among the Internet's many gains for humanity, decreasing paranoia has not been one of them. Anything from that lump under your armpit to what's lurking in the sea - just type it into a search engine and watch your nerves explode.

We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

Dont be reckless with other peoples hearts and dont put up with people that are reckless with yours.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

In order to protect against being disrupted, startups also need to recruit employees that are committed to life-long learning. The skills that made your team members valuable may not be the skills needed to take your company to the next level or to compete in emerging markets.

Most of my friends are in the industry - photographers, models, stylists, and social media kids.

I don't want normal, and easy, and simple. I want painful, difficult, devastating, life-changing, extraordinary love. Don't you want that, too?

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

The world is still sexist.