The future of dance will always be tied up with the public's acceptance of the star. If they accept the star, then they'll accept the dance.

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.

Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within.

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Pamela Palmer's stories catch you, captivate you, and never let you go.

Another foundational truth is that God has a plan for history. History is providential, not accidental.

I'm the guy who will eat something that looks nice when I'm out, but when I take it home in a doggie bag, it'll sit in the back of my refrigerator until it starts to move.

President O[bama] talks the talk and then walks a completely different walk. I would call him the divider-in-chief.

You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.