The media paint ugly pictures about you.

The older I've gotten, I really do feel that it's a lack of trust that I see in people and that's why they don't follow their dreams - because they don't trust anything.

I just thank god that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen.

That was the first time I knew I loved him.

I didn't really like my birthday as a kid. My mother used to say, "Sometimes we'd have a birthday party and you would just wander off." But she said it was just my way in the world. It wasn't anything that I was truly interested in.

You learn something from everything you do. With every project I've ever done, I've always treated it like I'm still in school.

I never really saw my dad as entertained as when he was just completely blown away by somebody on the television screen or at the movies. I think that's the real reason that I went into acting.