The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer.

It is a revolutionary experience. That's the best way I can describe it. It transforms you completely, in a second. Nature is very wise and gives you nine months to prepare, but in that moment-when you see that face, you are transformed forever.

Nothing is going to happen to you if you throw salt on the floor, stand under a ladder, or see eight black cats on the street.

I'm not like Puff Daddy, I hold my own umbrella.

I don't do Twitter, Facebook; none of that. My email I do from my Blackberry or my iPhone.

I won't go to places where you're going to find more attention. I go to the opposite.

I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don't have the discipline to go to the gym.