Sometimes, a person who likes your work and a person who don’t will show up within milliseconds of each other to let you know how they feel. One does not need to cancel out the other, positively or negatively; if you’re proud of the work, and you enjoyed the work, that is what’s important.

I have found that the key to being happy - well, one of the keys, anyway - is to be easily amused.

When you say a 'former child star,' you may as well say 'failed child star.

Even when I was little and going on auditions, it was clear who was there because they wanted to be there, and who was there because their stage parents were making them be there. There was a major difference.

Either you have a sense of humor about [being a former child star], or you're in rehab. There's not a lot of gray area.

Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would always say, "No, I just want to be an actor."

I would love to find myself in a position where I have to decide, "Gosh, do I want to be on a series?"