Rigby Quotes & Sayings

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. — Cathy Rigby

Our athletes are our heroes. — Cathy Rigby

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?' — Cathy Rigby

Band has really been the one thing that allows me to experience somewhat of a distraction. They say music heals, right? I'm able to exist in all my weirdness right in the middle of a big crowd of people, but all I really have to focus on is playing my own part, marching with the correct foot, and being where I'm supposed to be on the field. - Rigby Raines — R.K. Slade

It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater. — Cathy Rigby

I have three dogs and a cockatoo. — Cathy Rigby

The thing I received from Girl Scouts more than anything else was a sense of real teamwork and working for the community, helping others, and it was not competitive. I remember working as a group to achieve a goal or to help the community. There was a great sense of accomplishment in that. — Cathy Rigby

In my fiction, there's a lot that's borrowed from music. It's never like I'm taking a lyric, but more the mood of a particular song. 'The Boy Detective Fails' was like listening to 'Eleanor Rigby' by The Beatles, this very melancholy-but-poppy song. — Joe Meno

It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality. — Cathy Rigby

Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable. — Cathy Rigby

I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth. — Cathy Rigby

I've always been a performer. I love doing impressions of people and being the clown. — Emma Rigby

A lot of people have a particular song that, no matter their mood, turns them on. With me, it's Eleanor Rigby. — Dana Gould

My mum took me to the ballet at three, and that was the only time I sat still, with jaw open, mesmerised. She brought me home, and I wouldn't stop dancing. — Emma Rigby

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try. — Cathy Rigby

I think I initially started inventing characters in my songs because I didn't want to write directly about myself. Also, as a kid, I loved all the character names in Beatles songs, like Eleanor Rigby and Lovely Rita and Mean Mr. Mustard and Maxwell and Rocky Raccoon. — Adam Schlesinger

When you're in a soap, it's fantastic, and I'm really grateful for the fans who watch you and support you. For me, it was the best experience because I was able to act every day and work with so many different directors and get some great storylines and learn on-screen. — Emma Rigby

I worked with Kathy Rigby, and it's a concept called 'Peter Perry': it's all of Katy Perry's songs telling the story of Peter Pan. Kathy was so sweet, and it was such a cool experience to meet her and work with her and use the set that I had watched on television for so many years. — Todrick Hall

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

caused everyone to look — Adam Rigby

In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material. — Cathy Rigby

I will jump into most any role. — Cathy Rigby

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! — Cathy Rigby

I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open. — Cathy Rigby

It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about "Eleanor Rigby." It's true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong? — Jonathan Safran Foer

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. — Cathy Rigby

I couldn't do 'Eleanor Rigby' because it was clashing with another project - something I was going to go do - something with Liv Ullmann. — Joel Edgerton

I'm basically a nobody in the trumpet section. I like it that way. I hate being in front of people. I think I'm too nervous, or anxious, or something. The only time I ever played a solo was that time during concert band that I accidentally played during a rest. The whole band was silent and I honked out a right note at the wrong time. I was so embarrassed that I wanted to hide in my band locker. - Rigby Raines — R.K. Slade

I never realized until recently how much my life parallels Peter Pan. — Cathy Rigby

I just like to act. — Cathy Rigby

So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there's also that fear about people leaving you. — Cathy Rigby

Carol's life seemed sad in an Eleanor Rigby kind of way. — Una Tiers

If you don't know who Eleanor Rigby is, you probably were born after 1985 and need to listen to some real music. — George Takei

Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes. — Cathy Rigby

An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax. — Cathy Rigby

I did really well at school, and I would have loved to have gone to Oxford or Cambridge. I would have read English, and I'm really interested in politics. — Emma Rigby

I'll talk to kids afterward and somebody will always say, 'I'll leave my bedroom window open for you. — Cathy Rigby

You see your peers weighing 80 pounds and you think, 'Oh, my God, I've got to be 80 pounds or I'll fail.' — Cathy Rigby

I've been on 'Hollyoaks' since I was 15, and I've grown up on the show. I'm so very fortunate to be given the opportunity to learn my craft in such a fantastic environment. — Emma Rigby

I love gritty drama. I'm passionate about films and drama that make you think - hard-hitting, gravelly characters. — Emma Rigby

Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children. — Cathy Rigby

Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot. — Cathy Rigby