Nicole Fosse

“I always danced with my father in the living room. He did lifts with me, and he would twirl me around, and we'd laugh and giggle.”

“Don't ever postpone things - that was very clear in our family.”

“You can sing at 65, and you can act at 65, but you can't kick your legs at 65.”

“Because I was an only child, I lived in a very grown-up world.”

“If you want to be with somebody, do it, 'cause they could be dead tomorrow.”

“My parents really doted on me in so many ways. They had an intense love and participation in my well-being.”

“There's no such thing as working too hard. Don't throw in the towel. Keep trying. But always make time for playfulness and silliness and joy in every day.”

“I think it's common to want to label things as all good or all bad and what I'm finding is that every situation, person, event, has good and bad in it.”

“I'm much more aware of how distraught my father could be internally. That was normal to me - the obsession with work, the crazy hours - and when I watch it on screen I really see how enveloped he was by show business to the point where he didn't develop much of another life. Everything was show business to him.”

“I think historically it's good for younger people to see where so much influence has come from. If you're using my mother as a role model it gives women permission to be kooky and wonderful and individual and unique and loyal and independent all at the same time.”

“I don't want my own life to be solely about preserving my parents' lives.”

“It took me a long time to learn both good and bad can exist simultaneously.”