Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.

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.

Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work.

As believers, we each have a different essence of existence

You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.

With a kiss you can strip me defenseless.

People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.

Beginnings play their prized part in every finished human accomplishment, for beginnings mean the birth of added progress.

Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow.

My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse.

The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things.

I think I am a little too old now.