Being a figure skater myself and knowing what it took for my parents to get up at five in the morning to drive me to the rink before school and then drive me to practice after school - it's a huge commitment for any family.
I've always been a figure skater and ballet dancer. I love physical comedy, and any chance that I get to do that... that is so me.
Before I even wanted to be an actor, I wanted to be a figure skater.
I could never focus on my upper body as a skater, so I'm enjoying having symmetrical upper and lower body muscle.
Generally, speed skaters don't run that much. I'm a little bit of an exception in that I run a lot.
I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.
I think growing up in skating, I was surrounded by the LGBT community, so I grew up very aware because I was around it so often, and some of the kindest people I know are gay figure skaters.
I'm the type of skater that needs to stay upbeat and relaxed, open, because if I stay quiet, I get in my head, and then I start to think too much and start to doubt.
A lot of people who watch figure skaters want us to look like pretty princesses. I want people to see the athlete, and I want to look like a woman among girls.
Skaters are infamously superstitious.
