When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.

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.

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.

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

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.

Be strong enough to say this to yourself -Sins were mine, and so shall I have to pay for it

If there is to be any peace it will come through being not having.

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings.

We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.

When you have characters talking about music in any way, especially about music someone doesn't know, some people presume it's about showing social capital and sneering at those who don't have it.

Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

I remember that even my first impression of Italian cinema was pictures by paparazzi because my mom was reading all of these trash magazines with paparazzo pictures.