Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century.

I don't remember anybody ever pointing me out as a dancing prodigy, but I played a not bad second base.

If it doesn't look easy it is that we have not tried hard enough yet.

We attend to his later performances as a dramatic actor with respect, but watching the nondancing, nonsinging Astaire is like watching a grounded skylark.

Do it big, do it right, and do it with style.

There comes a day when people begin to say, 'Why doesn't that old duffer retire?' I want to get out while they're still saying Astaire is a hell of a dancer.

If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.