I was very much of a tomboy.

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.

Together, "Light and Knowledge" are Inanimate, Intangible, and Inseparable.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

I just find that each year I try something new. You can't fight the march of time. To balance that out, each year you should develop one more good habit. It levels the playing field.

One of the things that makes God different from people is that God is always available to listen.

Art changes people people change the world.

Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.

Um, and I'm also very proud of my work on George of the Jungle 2.

Yeah, most guys don't like to think about going to a bar with a girlfriend and watching her leave with someone else.

Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.