I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth.
From Cathy Rigby
When you're on the Olympic team at 15, you don't do anything else. There's no normal social development, and your decisions are made for you.
An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.
Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.
Our athletes are our heroes.
There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.
I just like to act.
I will jump into most any role.
I remember secretly going off and crying. All of a sudden I'm being blocked and have to be intimate in a scene, and I'm going, 'I can't even look people in the eye very well. How am I ever going to do this?'
I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!
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