I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn`t inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated.

Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they`re also artists.

I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.

Party of Five won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series.

No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.

People either know Alan Rudolph and love every single one of his films or they don`t know him at all.

Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.

The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I`d never screamed at someone in my life.

There are very few dance companies in the world and you have to be phenomenal. You have to not be injured. You have to have a really strong mind to deal with the dance world. People who can do it are amazing to me. You cannot have a life outside of dance.

If you`re in a company, you`re dancing from 9 a.m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go home and get in a hot tub and get some Epsom salts and try to get your body goin` again. There`s no social life, no anything.

I always thought I should base how good I am on how good I feel I am.

There`s something really nice about not sitting separate from the crew in some massive trailer away from the studio. To actually be there with them, it`s more of a creative process.

I don`t know how people can live without a therapist.

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it`s not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.

My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw.

You`re being cast for your acting ability. It`s not based on the way your body functions. If you`re playing a lead in a movie, it`s for that character and they`ll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.

I`ve never been opposed to nudity. I`ve been opposed to nudity for box-office draw.

I`m just one of those people that if I sit down to watch a horror film, I put my hands over my face and I cry a lot and I don`t see half of the film because I`m too upset.

Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.

There`s a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there`s a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage.

It`s almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words.

(On pointe work in ballet): "You`d better love it, or there`s absolutely no point. Unless, of course, you`re a complete masochist."

(On her dance injuries): "I have got arthritis in my neck and my hips. I have had surgery on my feet. I have had snapping hip syndrome, tendonitis, shin splints, bursitis... I have had almost every injury imaginable."

"Classical ballet is physically challenging. You don`t have any control over your career. You have to take instruction. You can`t talk back. You can`t have an opinion. You have to have great discipline and endurance. You have to tolerate pain. If you don`t make it within a five-year period after training, you won`t get into a company. You can`t do it after you turn 35, because your body hurts so much. If you do ballet, you have to do it all day, every day."

"I`m always sad I left dance. I`m just in my element when I`m in the dance world. I`m so much more content in my heart when I`m sitting on a dance floor in a studio. It sounds so cheesy but it`s just my home, it`s where I grew up, I`ve been doing it since I was 6. It makes so much more sense to me than anything else I do."

"When I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I had in my life was my belief that everything in life is a learning experience, whether it be positive or negative. If you can see it as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive."

"TS has really taught me a lesson about judging people who are different. Now when I see somebody do or say something I don`t understand, I try to look beyound appearances and ask myself what makes that person tick - no pun intended. Think about it: When you keep an open mind about things that seem unusual or strange, all sorts of new understanding come to you. The world gets bigger, and so do you." ["Celebrity Diary", Teen People Magazine, April 2000]

(Asked "Was she injured during the filming of The Company (2003)): "I broke my rib three days before going to Chicago. I did the training for four and a half months getting ready to go and three days before I went, when I was really nervous to join the company and see where I stood, I broke my rib. We were learning "Funny Valentine" and because we were learning from the tape, we were doing one of the lifts wrong. He lifted me from under my ribs. So then I had to go and do it with a broken rib".

("What was the most diificult time of her life?"): Probably when I was at the National Ballet School of Canada, from the ages of nine to fourteen. It`s the best dance school in the world, but an extremely competitive one, and there was a lot of pressure for a child. It had an extremely back-stabbing mentality, and there was a lot of favoritism. I wanted to be there because I wanted to be a dancer. I love to dance, and that was my dream. When you`re in that school, it means you`ve beaten out two thousand people to get there, so you`re not exactly gonna quit. But I did, at fourteen, because I basically had a nervous breakdown--I wouldn`t have been able to function had I stayed there. It was a huge decision. But I`d just about given up on my dream of being a dancer and realized that I`d completely lost myself and had no friends and was very unhappy in my life and couldn`t have continued if I`d stayed there.

(If she could change one feature about her, what would it be?): "I have the ugliest feet in the world. But even if I didn`t dance, they would still be ugly. My toes are too big!"