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

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.

When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.

The reason why most of your goals are probably not achieved is because you do not break down your goals into smaller units of work.

Your spirit is strong enough to survive any situation.

I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.

To a significant degree, we are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth, and lacking the energy that could be ours because we overindulge in junk foods.

In a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow - in a movie, they don't come out for a bow, they're dead.

The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it damn well pleases.

What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example.

Holland seems like a quaint toy.

I read Eve Ensler and thought it was fabulous. Not only that, but it was really the only thing I could relate to about cancer.