With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy.

Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.

There's a bunch of directors that I really admire, and Australian ones as well. It would be nice to do a film at home.

Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.

Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.

In our world, we have so many ways we can escape with technology, like TV, Facebook, computers, text messaging and all that.

It sounds corny to say, but it was really inspiring seeing kids that were just living and connecting with people. That was something I really understood, the need and want for connection, and fun, and it not needing to be sympathetic, just sort of good fun.