Dance is the fastest, most direct route to the truth.
Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
You have to develop a very thick skin.
It's not the gentle part I have a problem with, it's the dull, stupid part.
Xena, I'll always love you, but I know I have to let you go.
You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.