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.

There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

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.