I took it as it came and it happened to be very nice..

The finest all-around performer we ever had in America was Judy Garland. There was no limit to her talent. She was the quickest, brightest person I e….

If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando..

I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time..

In the 1930s there was this tendency in Hollywood to portray everyone as rich. Even if they were doing a poor man's dance, they were all so nicely cl….

Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat..

I didn't want to move or act like a rich man. I wanted to dance in a pair of jeans. I wanted to dance like the man in the streets..

You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a ….

Like an athlete, [dance] is an everyday job. You have to stay in shape - unless you just want to loaf through a couple of hoofing routines. But that ….

At 14 I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship. Only later did I disco….

Any man who looks like a sissy while dancing is just a lousy dancer..

The way I look at a musical, you are commenting on the human condition no matter what you do. A musical may be light and frivolous, but by its very n….

I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls..

Come on with the rain / I’ve a smile on my face..

I never wanted to be a dancer. It's true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates..

I never played a rich man, I never played a prince. And to play a sailor or longshoreman you had to make your dance more eclectic and varied, but sti….

You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams..

When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman..

In film, a dancer should always be shot from head to toe, because that way you can see the whole body and that is the art of dancing. Nowadays they s….

I miss the romance. I keep saying this over and over again, but dance follows music. And if the accent today is percussion and rhythm and loudness, t….

I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium..