My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.

What I do when I write is I just write the way I would tell it, so it comes out just exactly the way I would talk to you.

No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.

My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.