“After I finished 'Center Stage,' I went back to San Francisco, and I d...” — Amanda Schull Quote

“After I finished 'Center Stage,' I went back to San Francisco, and I danced for seven seasons with the San Francisco Ballet.”

“I take a lot of notes. Maybe it's a product of me taking so many notes, but I have a pretty good memory for episodes, and some of the other actors will ask me questions about things, so I have this sense of responsibility that I have to be the one to remember some of the details.”

“A lot of professional dancers become professional when they turn 15 or 16 years old, when they're still children. So you've trained every single waking moment up until that point for a career that could maybe only last 10 years, maybe longer if your body holds up, if your injuries are kept at bay.”

“When I was a child, I did swimming, running, ballet and even karate. But I got kicked out of karate class on the first day I went because I was laughing so much. It all just seemed so funny to me.”

“The ballet world is so competitive, and for no reason. It's not a sport. It's an art. There's no winner.”

“As a dancer, I know couples that have stayed married but separated to dance on different continents. Dance in general, but ballet in particular, is such a finite career. You can't do it later in life, and it's something that I think a dancer has to have some selfishness to fulfill.”