When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed.

I love any opportunity to be able to dance. It's in my blood. I mean, I need to do it as an artist. I need to always do it.

I miss directing. I see stories in images and music more so than in dialogue.

I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet.

How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.

I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody.

If you have the right costumes you feel more confident as the character, they really help you act.