Well, I was such a huge fan of Amy Sherman-Palladino and of 'Gilmore Girls.'

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.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

Sometimes people try to expose what's wrong with you, because they can't handle what's right about you.

If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.

Having a really good partner, whether it's a good friend, someone in your family or a spouse, is always the greatest thing to have when you have a new challenge that you're facing.

Fashion faux pas should be celebrated. I enjoy them because it means we're not all clones.

There is no use getting angry at something that has already happened.All you can do is your best to check it doesn't happen again.

The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an "object." This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.

Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.

I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it that most open minds should be closed for repairs.

A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.