Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.
It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.
Having my son, I mean, I feel already that it makes me a better actress. Just the feeling and the love that expands in my being is more than I ever thought possible.