I often take a brand-new suit or hat and throw it up against the wall a few times to get that stiff, square newness out of it.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

Do it big, do it right, and do it with style.

Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

Dancing is a vertical interpretation of a horizontal intention.

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.

If it doesn't look easy it is that we have not tried hard enough yet.

And that love that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart.

When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

Victor was the first to speak, and when he did, it was with an eloquence and composure perfectly befitting the situation

Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

I don't know what I was thinking when I was starting out. I was hoping I'd get paid to draw realistic pictures of hockey players. I still hold that hope alive.

When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.

I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.

It took years of wear and tear before idealism crumbled like so much bric-a-brac.

We all make mistakes. We're human. Hopefully, everyone -- like I am -- will have that attitude. I'm not upset.

Bad men cannot make good citizens.

I'm kind of under the radar. Not a lot of people notice me. Which is surprising, because I'm so sexy. They're probably intimidated by my sexiness and crushability.