I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

Once you are hooked, smoking is harder to quit then heroin.

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.

I am the odd man out in the family.

Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.

If you want to be alive and live in a real world, if you want to have any emotions at all in your life, you must willingly, knowingly, repeatedly set yourself up for things possibly not ending up 'happily ever after.

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.