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.

I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I'm thankful I don't have parents that I feel I need to get their attention. They've always been there for me.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.