An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.

In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material.

I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.

Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children.

There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.

It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.

It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.

I will jump into most any role.

I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth.

Money is only a problem to those that aren't willing to develop a higher conscience about how to master it.

So Nikki came aboard as Jaqueline's spare cat, presumably in case our prime cat, Eliza, goes on vacation, takes industrial action, or requests a personal day.

Giving is an act of generosity.Giving is sowing a seed.The seed will produce great harvest of fruits.

Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve.

France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

I trust the integrity of the British government and the British soldiers.

Love me, love my dog.

Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.

...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.

You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.