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.

It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.