The only way you learn is by failure.

One take, so you better be ready and you better be good. One take and that was it. It was something that was spontaneous. Both Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason was like that as well.

Anything worthwhile is hard, and dancing is very hard, and if you've ever studied dancing of any kind you'd know that to be in precision, three people dancing together.

[Marilyn Monroe] was a bit temperamental, a little diva-like, but she didn't deserve what she got.

I still perform live primarily. I just keep traveling and doing live shows. The main difference in film, you know in your mind that you are doing it for posterity, you are doing for the eventual audience and it will be around forever.

I'll just stay in [show business] till they stuff me like Trigger, when I drop dead.

Marilyn [Monroe] was really mistreated.