My favorite special skill on my resume is 'excellent monkey noises.'

My mother is a Senior Casualty Claims Specialist I, which in layman's terms means the head insurance adjuster!

I've never really had a fear of heights; in fact, I love being up high, so hanging from wires high above everyone's head has always sort of felt natural for me.

I did a lot of trapeze stuff when I did 'Pippin' and continued to do it afterward. Flying is so fun, and I was used to the harness idea, but these harnesses are like intense, full bodysuit things.

When I got here, people would do the monkey noises and chants and stuff like that. I just kind of laugh it off.

She's been chancellor at Stanford. I mean she's just got the patent resume of somebody that's got some serious skill. She loves football. She's African-American, which would kind of be a big coon ...