I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer and taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.

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

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.

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

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

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

My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.

Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.

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

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 nature, it makes some kind of social comment.

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

Fear is the brother of hate.

As artists, we create the beautyWe are too afraid to live outAnd search, but always fall just shyOf finding what life is about.

There's no glory like those who save their country.

While we do not place our faith directly in angels, we should place it in the God who rules the angels; then we can have peace.

God will hear His people at the beginning of their prayers if the condition of their heart is ready for it.

You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.

As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.

There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered.

Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival.

Hell hath no fury like a woman cheated out of a million dollars.