American - Athlete | December 12, 1952 -
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.
Cathy Rigby
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An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.
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Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.
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Our athletes are our heroes.
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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.
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I just like to act.
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I will jump into most any role.
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I remember secretly going off and crying. All of a sudden I'm being blocked and have to be intimate in a scene, and I'm going, 'I can't even look people in the eye very well. How am I ever going to do this?'
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I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!
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Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.
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I never realized until recently how much my life parallels Peter Pan.
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You see your peers weighing 80 pounds and you think, 'Oh, my God, I've got to be 80 pounds or I'll fail.'
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