If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.
I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.
There's nothing like turning on the radio and listening to the high-speed chase that you're leading police on!
Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place.
Being an ex-child star is not a given.
As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food.
Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks.
I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me.
I think I would have had less tumult in my life if I hadn't grown up in my particular house.
My motto in life is, 'If anything is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.'
If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two.
It's weird because horses kind of come and go in my life.
It's funny, because I'm a man of strong opinions and when I make one, I stand by it even if it starts to appear incorrect to me after a while.
Now it seems like people want to do damage to young celebrities. They want to find them doing bad things. They encourage them.
If you have an impossible dream, a dream that cannot be fulfilled, the friendly thing for me to do is to put a stop to you wasting your life at it.
I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.
The fact is, I made $400 a week and only for 26 weeks a year. I never had any money.
People ask me, what was your rock bottom? I say, pick.
There are all of these people that say, my mommy doesn't love me enough, my daddy doesn't hug me enough. There are some people that would want to coddle them somewhere. I want them to shut up and stop whining.
There's no longevity in me telling old stories on the radio.
