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" I demand excellence from the people I work with. "

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" I have a real eclectic taste for work, for movies, for characters and jobs. "

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" I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger. "

" I'm absolutely an optimist. It's the only way to get through life. "

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" I have fond memories of my childhood. I spent five wonderful years on a popular TV show, but I didn't have a normal childhood. I was tutored for grades 4-11. "

" I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have. "

" In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype you see in those westerns. "

" I have a great family myself so I know if you don't have a family you've got nothing. Nothing else can take the place of the family - not girlfriends or a career. "

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" There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed. "

" It's difficult being a child actor. I don't think everything beautiful has to be exploited. Some things can be beautiful and left beautiful. "

" I love horror. I love 'The Shining,' 'Friday the 13th,' 'Halloween,' all those kinds of things. I love zombies, especially '28 Days Later' and '28 Weeks Later,' where the zombies are going faster than the George Romero ones. I love being scared; there's something that's awesome about your heart rate going up like that. "

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" I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them; it's to push them. "

" I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more. "

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