It brought out in me the person whom I had the potential to become. I think that's why I loved it for its own sake, not to be a ballerina.
And I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.
My mother was very interested in giving her daughters the advantage of music and dance, if we had an interest in it. My father was not.
When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across.
The wonderful thing about life it that there will always be variables. You have to see them and be aware of them to know how to react to them.