I think Twyla [Tharp] has a lot to say. The great thing about Twyla is that she continues to explore.

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.

Don’t let your circumstances and the events in your life rob you of the joy of celebration.

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

Money is not my business; my thinking is my business. I don't have any other business.

You're not capable of stepping into nirvana at this time. If you did it would be disastrous. You're tonal would be swamped.

And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that here was one whom no Rider of the Mark could outmatch in battle.

I've always had the dream of going to New Zealand and meeting a lovely New Zealander in a bar.

If someone says, 'No, no, no, the earth is round!', they think this person is an extremist. That's what it's like for someone with my right-of-centre views working inside the BBC.

The simplest secret of reaching any place is to start walking! If people say you can't reach there, close your ears to them and continue walking!

While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them.

Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.