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"I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid."
Kids,
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"I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!"
Acting
"I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show."
Dream
"There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing."
Movies
"The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you."
Being
"I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike."
People
"I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork."
School
"I'm pretty hard on myself in general."
Pretty
"Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence."
Movies
"It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore."
Day
"When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'"
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"If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that."
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"If I don't see my kids for six days, I start to get withdrawal pains."
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"The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle."
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"I've had lots of kids come up and ask for my autograph, I've had a grandmother stop me and ask me if I know a good place to buy underwear."
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"We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids."
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"I have an almost seven year old... I think it's essential to be consistent with kids. And truthful, without scaring them. I could go on for hours on this one."
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"I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed."
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"We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed."
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"Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you."
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"I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself."
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