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I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

Who a dancer is physically feeds into character for me. Always has.

Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind the actors. We've always been very secondary.

I don't think of myself as a dancer. I think of myself as a singer-actress who moves really well.

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.

I like to be around dancers who are totally committed to the art form, totally committed to the men and women around them.

Dancers work and they work and they work, and they master their skills so far that improvisation just comes flowing out of them. Their natural expression of the best they can possibly be comes out of them because there is no boundary to hold them back... That's the mentality that I'm trying to create, recreate and hold on to forever.

I like to dance, but I'm not a dancer.

To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving.

I like dancers. I have a thing for girls who dance.