I don't even want to discuss Flashdance. I'm no critic, but that's an interesting phenomenon, that picture.

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.

The wall of every inability can only be built with one's mind.

We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.

There are some fights none of us can win.

Either the translator leaves the author in peace, as much as is possible, and moves the reader towards him: or he leaves the reader in peace, as much as possible, and moves the author towards him.

There is no need to argue if an experiment can be made.

Fondue is not a good date food.

If I can play a little part in the world's healing, and making it a better place than when I came, then I just thank God for that chance.

In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.

Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.

It's not my intention to shock, to offend, sensationalise, be political or whatever; only to make work that is as spiritually meaningful as I can make it-whatever the medium.