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

That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.

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.

Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years.

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

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

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