I'm actually excited about being in my 40s. I mean, that's ironic considering the show I'm on, but I have never felt like I need to feel or look the same as when I was 20.

I was a very outgoing, gregarious, full-of-energy kid.

Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.

Even when I’m not working, I’m still working on something because I just want to create something.

I don't think of myself as a dancer. I think of myself as a singer-actress who moves really well.

I made things a lot harder than they needed to be out of fear and anxiety.

I'm used to working hard. Theater can be very grueling, and that's all I've ever known. It's what I've done for 20 years, which is crazy.

I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.

I feel like my life now, it's only getting better, which feels nice.

It's a bit of an outside-in approach - so often the clothing can reveal so much about a character. It's like part of her superhero costume that she gets to put on and become someone else.

It's okay not to know everything; that would have calmed me down.

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

Your trials can release your Gifts and Dreams. Your trials can set you free.

Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.

Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.

The reason I'm really appreciative of everything that's going on around me is because of the fact that I never expected it, and I want to keep that attitude.

Abandon money for authenticity.

In between your failure-tree And your triumph-tree, The tree that is growing Is known as your patience-tree.

Overhead was a sky blacker than jewlers' velvet, and a billion stars screamed down.

I don't think there would be many examples of South Africa pushing its weight around the African Continent. I don't think the facts would substantiate that argument.