I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.

You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.

They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.

Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.

The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' together in 2004 and we've stayed in touch.

If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.

The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.

I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.

I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything.

I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!

Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Recipes are not assembly manuals. Recipes are guides and suggestions for a process that is infinitely nuanced. Recipes are sheet music.

I think what's dangerous is 24 hours a day, 335 channels, or whatever the hell there is. Too much is too much.

A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.

Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without much reflection.

If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think, "I want to make this movie," it'll never get made.

Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.

Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.