Cathy Rigby

It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.

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.

Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.