A lot of professional dancers become professional when they turn 15 or 16 years old, when they're still children. So you've trained every single waking moment up until that point for a career that could maybe only last 10 years, maybe longer if your body holds up, if your injuries are kept at bay.

I love the process of creating a character; someone entirely different from myself, and depicting it, either on stage or screen.

I would remind people on the planet that this is the only one we have, and we need to take care of it.

I think one of my biggest lessons so far in life is that hard work really does pay off. It may not culminate in the way you expected it to, but I have found that when I really put my head down and apply myself, I often get a good result.

Love for me is comfort. I feel most loved and most capable of giving love when I am around people or in places that make me comfortable.

I give myself a Pilates/yoga hybrid mat class almost every day. I also continue to take ballet classes. Both of these practices help me to be aware of my body, my center, and how I move, both with my physical space and my mental space.

Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera lens gets.