Quotes from Nicole Fosse

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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