I was born and raised to entertain other people. I've heard laughter and applause and known a lot of sorrow. Everything about me is based on show business - I think it will bring me happiness. I hope so.

You see, as far as the man's personality goes, there's no one who can touch Fred Astaire. He's unique.

It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.

I`m basically a hoofer, a tap dancer. I was always very good from the waist down, moving with the feet... I became what`s known as a total dancer, using the entire body in order to express what you want to express in tap dancing and line.

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.

Short people have long faces, and long people have short faces. Big people have little humor, and little people have no humor at all.

I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.