Either the camera will dance, or I will.

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.

It's nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling records I was never worth anything particularly except as a collector's item.

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

Dancing is a vertical interpretation of a horizontal intention.

But I do nothing that I don't like, such as "inventing" up to the arty or "down" to the corny. I happen to relish a certain type of corn. What I think is the really dangerous approach is the "let's be artistic" attitude. I know that artistry just happens.

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