I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.

People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.

The musical stuff I'd go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.

I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.

I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.

I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.

Artists need to express.

I don't see myself as a diva at all.

Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

What if you find your soul mate... at the wrong time?

In life I will fall, I will backslide, but mark my word I will never give up.

Only today is real.

Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.

The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.

Acting is one of these things that I can't really describe - it's just like, why do you love your mum and dad? You know, you just do.