You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.

Anything is possible if you believe you deserve it.

Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance.

Friendship is not linear. It moves in all directions, teaching us about ourselves and about each other.

Being a dancer meant you nearly always thought about food.

The pickings are pretty slim when you have to play the part of a housewife who doesn't go out of her apartment because she's afraid she's going to get mugged, or a woman who turns into her brother, who is a murderer.

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.