In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.

For a child actor, its a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.

I tell my agent that I want to read everything.

I think everyone should follow their instincts, and go with what they feel, and follow their heart.

There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.