When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.

I have never had anything that I can remember in the business - and that includes all the movies and the stage shows and everything - that I didn't enjoy. I didn't like some of the small-time vaudeville, because we weren't going on and getting better. Aside from that, I didn't dislike anything.

I inherited the knowledge that sometimes (talents) not only skip a generation, but sometimes run screaming from it. Ironically, it was the singing non-ability that helped feed my love of laughter.

Disco is just jitterbug.

Of course, Ginger was able to accomplish sex through dance. We told more through our movements instead of the big clinch. We did it all in the dance.

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

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.