At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.

You've got to hang on to who you are, what you are. Don't let anyone take it from you.

Drugs won't enhance your performance.

My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually.

Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you.

I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.

Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.