I expected that most of my career would be in dramatic acting. My hero was James Dean.

Risk being seen in all of your glory.

Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.

Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.

If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

I like challenges and I don't believe in failure. I don't believe in regrets. I believe suffering, failure - all those concepts - are things that are absolutely necessary to make us the best people that we can be, the best at whatever we want to do.

I just love to skate. When I put a skate on the ice, I'm free from the world, and I have no problems at all. I am a bird!