I try to have a very optimistic outlook on life, I try not to take anything too seriously, I try to and I do find a ton of joy and happiness in my life and I think that helps you stay youthful.

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.

Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish.

Run like hell and get the agony over with.

A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.

One thing about mildly dyslexic people - they're good at setting everything else aside to pursue one goal.

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.

Purify yourself from the attributes of self, so that you may see your own pure, untarnished essence.

You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up.

The haters always scream the loudest.

I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet.