What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It's too hard to face.

I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.

When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

Come to the Lord with boldness and talk to Him in prayer

But my anger was a slippery thing, like a fish I was trying to keep hold of, and it wiggled out of my grasp.

Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.

A friend who will never fail is the one who will stand by you regardless of the situation, time or location.

Summer had a way of being full of fun and things to do and plenty of times of doing nothing and feeling bored.

Evidence will terminate any short or long era of an argument.

Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.

Any food product that feels compelled to tell you it’s natural in all likelihood is not.

Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.