“Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.”

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.

I don’t see myself as a diva at all.

I don’t see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don’t define them separately, so I can’t say one has helped the other, It’s all the same thing.

More than anything I love being on stage and performing

I’ve never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.

Artists need to express.

I am a very complicated person.

I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well

I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer

She was wonderful – just a kind, big-hearted, filthy girl. Somehow she could be vulgar without being vulgar.

The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.

In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts

I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I’d fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.

You have to be aware. Like, I’m not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I’m not going to risk breaking a leg.

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.

And I was like, “Yeah, anything. Twenty-four hours times five is 120 hours. Oh, great, I’ll fill 120 hours of my life with something.” So I did that and it was fun, and then I did Flirting with Disaster.

If you always have a crutch, you don’t learn anything.

Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.

Never agree to say or do anything that isn’t you.

I have never felt bereft of anything.

I’m not really a strange person or anything, so if there’s music I like, usually there’s other people who like it too.

What enables me to believe in anything is hope.