After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music.

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.

I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.

Of course, in the art class, I was the model.

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.