Born on May 22nd

"You can't be a victim and heal."

"You have to trust your body to take care of you."

"If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick."

"I don't look at myself as suffering."

"I have a great life and I'm super active."

"I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way."

"Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'"

"I think it's weird seeing myself on the television, but it's great!"

"I've always wanted to act; I just didn't know how to get into it. It kind of just happened. Dance brought me into it."

"I love New York. I can walk half a block and I'm at the grocery store. I don't have to drive anywhere."

"Mexican, Mediterranean, Italian, sushi, I love it all. Put it on a plate, and as long as I know what it is, I will eat it."

"My mom says I either have to go to college or go into the military."

"I always thought it would be cool to go to the island of misfit toys."

"The best gift I've ever gotten... My grandpa gave me a Polaroid camera when I was younger. It was awesome!"

"I just love to be on my skis, skiing with my friends, just going out into the mountains and being in nature and skiing some powder. That's the best thing."

"Skiing sand in midday sun was impossible - the sand becomes hot and abrasive."

"When you are too confident, that's when you hurt yourself."

"People are not used to seeing skiing on water, so I can understand why they think it is fake. That's why we started using outside views: so people can see that's its real."

"I've always been passionate about directing."

"I had some great times doing competitions, but I have always been more into making movies because making movies is more about art and expressing yourself in a creative way."

"I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed."

"I'm not OK dancing 90 percent."

"By the end of 'Swan Lake,' you know how there's all the corps on stage, and she keeps running in the back, doing arms? You can't feel your arms. You're just like, 'Ow.'"

"At age 14, coming to the U.S., all I knew was American Ballet Theatre, Baryshnikov, Nureyev, and some of the European companies. I barely knew anything about Balanchine."

"Today, dancers have so much more information and are much more mobile. Kids are traveling everywhere to go to summer programs, funding themselves with Kickstarter - putting their dreams on the Internet and seeing if they will pan out."

"I've learned, after 18 years of gathering information, to eat, then check in with my body - how do I feel? I've learned to eat whatever makes my body feel good. As a teenager, I was just so confused, overwhelmed by all the information."

"The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership."

"Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal."

"Only the winners decide what were war crimes."

"I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require."