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.

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

For that you should read the original. In very great poetry the music often comes through even when one doesn't know language. I loved Dante passionately before I knew a word of Italian.

When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

Everyone is a genius after the fight.

Friends create the world anew each day. Without their loving care, courage would not suffice to keep heartsstrong for life.

Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.

... finally democracy is catching up with the old, hierarchical, father-dominated family: the family is being democratized.

The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.

When you're young everything feels like the end of the world, but its not; its just the beginning.