Being an ex-child star is not a given.

People ask me, what was your rock bottom? I say, pick.

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

There are all of these people that say, my mommy doesn't love me enough, my daddy doesn't hug me enough. There are some people that would want to coddle them somewhere. I want them to shut up and stop whining.

Now it seems like people want to do damage to young celebrities. They want to find them doing bad things. They encourage them.

When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it.

If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two.