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'm just a hoofer with a spare set of tails.

Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.

Either the camera will dance, or I will.

In dealing with a girl or a horse, one lets nature take its course

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

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.