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  • When my body and face were perfect as far as youth, I wasn't happy.

  • I'd had a really bad car accident years ago, and basically, the ligaments in the back of my neck were ripped, and I'd never addressed that.

  • I wasn't a dancer learning to play Baby Houseman. I was Baby Houseman learning to play a dancer. I was someone who'd never done any Latin dance. I'd taken jazz classes and ballet growing up in New York, so I had dance in me, and I knew I loved it, but I'd never done a dance audition.

  • I think relationships are really hard. Each one gives you lessons that you need.

  • I had intelligent, high-minded, liberal parents who wanted to make sure my values were just like theirs.

  • When I try to be perfect, it makes me not have fun.

  • I would love to do a little ballroom dancing with my husband... He and I can take a couple classes together. It would be a lot of fun!

  • I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.

  • I wish anytime I went into a nice restaurant and asked for a table, they said, 'Well I'm sure you don't want one in the corner.'

  • I went to dance class as a girl because I didn't like sports, but I never did a dance recital in my life. Never, ever, ever. I felt comfortable dancing, and I was happiest dancing, but I was never the best person in the class.

  • There are millions of Americans who are suffering from chronic pain.

  • It's like dance is a metaphor for going beyond where you think you can go.

  • Practically everyone in Hollywood has a neighbor who's been famous, wants to be famous, is famous, has been married to someone famous, worked with someone famous, slept with someone famous, been blackmailed by someone famous.

  • I'll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognizes... because of a nose job.

  • I don't like to complain.

  • It's very hard to balance being there for somebody else and taking care of yourself.

  • Chronic pain can be very lonely. It can have a shame-based quality.

  • The cancer I had is not at all equal to other people's cancer. I've never had to have chemotherapy; I haven't had to have a mastectomy.

  • I'll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognises because of a nose job.

  • Give yourself pleasure; see your friends; go to the movies.

  • When you're in a relationship you really care about, you want to protect it and not talk about it.

  • I will always have pain. But I exercise as much as I can, and I find that makes a huge difference. And if my body does seize up, I have a pain plan in place. If it escalates, I go back to my doctor.

  • I have been suffering for so long and didn't even recognize it. I just stopped doing so many things that I used to love to do due to my pain.

  • I don't remember ever not knowing about acting.

  • I've always been a defiant little animal - always very much my own person.

  • I just don't get that new hot music. I don't know anything about all these groups like U2.

  • If you try to hold on to something you don't have anymore, you can't be happy in the moment.

  • I have a plate on my neck. I had my neck fused.

  • I found out my husband can cook!

  • The only time I've ever danced every day was during 'Dancing with the Stars' and in the two-week rehearsal for 'Dirty Dancing,' and that was only to do a particular dance.

  • You have to know me first to think I'm pretty.

  • Practically everyone in Hollywood has a neighbor whos been famous, wants to be famous, is famous, has been married to someone famous, worked with someone famous, slept with someone famous, been blackmailed by someone famous.

  • That was the summer of 1963, when everybody called me "?Baby,' and it didn't occur to me to mind.

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