It's nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling records I was never worth anything particularly except as a collector's item.

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.

When we sense something, it is due to the movement of atoms in space. When I see the moon it is because "moon atoms" penetrate my eye.

The thing about dignity: it can be destroyed, but not taken unless it's given away. It can always be beautified.

In parenting, as in judging, the days are long, but the years are short.

... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.

I aspire to be useful.

Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what I like about it.

Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.

INXS’ touring days could never last forever. We wanted it to end on a high. And it has.

God is near whether you sense His presence or not.

The end excuses any evil.