I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.

I love pets and I love animals, and I just got a new puppy, a new rescue named Peanut. She's a tiny little Chihuahua mix.

During the first couple of years of 'Dancing with the Stars,' I would go to Jack in the Box in my ball gown after the shows and get the Taco Nachos with cheese as my reward.

Love is the one thing in life that makes everything worthwhile.

I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed.

One of the best gifts you can give to an animal is a donation of a blanket to your local animal shelter during the winter months.

My poor vision gives me a soft-focus morning. For the first half hour, I kind of wander through my house, and everything is a blur. I put my contacts in when I'm ready to deal with the world.

I've never been supercritical about my body.

I really do want to have a child.

Somehow when I express my voice, I feel that much more vulnerable. For instance, if I used the wrong word, or if I said something and somebody could take the word and misinterpret it.

I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career.

He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs.

True love is the person you lay your eyes on that you will be with forever.

Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It's the skim milk that needs good teachers.

America under Barack Obama has become a defensive, reactive and weaker country both at home and abroad.

A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.

When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

If my words fail, let my eyes and my heart be my language.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom

Anything worthy of your passion, should be worthy of your preparation.