Popularity: 2
Vote:   | 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. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | But I have nothing to regret. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | But then it turned into a double edged sword where after being on that show people thought that was all I could do. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | But, every single time I play those, that bad character loses out. I'm either dead, or miserable, or clearly a bad example. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | DALLAS was the most hectic time in my life. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Drugs won't enhance your performance. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn't sleep with them, or do drugs with them. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | I didn't want to compromise my values, or my morals as a Christian. There are certain things I will and will not do. |
Popularity: 7
Vote: | I feel bad about a lot of the movies I see that teach kids that if they do bad, they'll win. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I had a hit and miss education because of the many interviews, working on productions, and going to school at the studios. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | I have two children that can see everything I've every done, and they have nothing to be ashamed of or hide from their friends. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I played a real nasty little girl but most of the roles I had up until then were very sweet and very nice. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | I thought I would keep the first name Susan and change the last name but I picked up this book and as I opened it the lead character in it was called Morgan Brittany. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | I was in a dancing school and a gentleman saw me and wanted to put me in a commercial so one thing led to another. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | I'm at a point where I work when I want to work, do the things I want to do... I'm trying to present myself in a positive way. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I've played killers, crazies, and really bad people. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | If Jack and I went to the Far East, people would know who I was. They knew me in Europe, South Africa, everywhere. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | In fact the last thing I did as a child actor under that name was a motion picture called Yours Mine and Ours with Lucile Ball and Henry Fonda. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | It's great when successful, but kid actors are put in a little category. You're only sellable and marketable when you're cute and little. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Most kids turn to drug addiction, alcoholism, and even suicide. It's very tragic. Child actors have a lot of tragedy. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | 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. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | Once you sell yourself, it's over. You've got nothing left. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | People are hungry for messages of hope and life. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in the twilight Zone. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | There was a big rivalry between the networks, ABC wanted Dynasty to takeover and we were still holding it and that's when everything got much more glitzy and much more glamorous. |
Popularity: -4
Vote: | Well, our children do know what this industry is about, but they have a good grip on who they are. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | When I was working on DALLAS, I worked five days a week, and then flew all around the country for speaking engagements and fund-raisers for the March of Dimes. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | You can be an Academy Award Winner, but you've still got to put yourself out there. And they'll continue to question you. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | You've got to hang on to who you are, what you are. Don't let anyone take it from you. |