When they do let them sustain on screen from head to toe, though, then you know they must think the person is a good dancer.

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.

Once you know what you want in life...Like a magnet you attract the resources necessary to manifest the world you desire.

Everything is hard before it is easy

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.

At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.

Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have patience.

2 Jewish women in New York. One says, "Do you see what's going on in Poland?" The other says, "I live in the back, I don't see anything."

Discipline is not a nasty word.

But, at the moment, when I step on the pitch, when I have the ball I know it's mine. It's just a feeling.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.