When working on my choreography I am not always receptive to outside suggestions or opinions. I believe that if you have something in mind in the way of a creation, such as a new dance, a sequence, or an effect, you are certain to come up with inaccurate criticism and damaging results if you go around asking for opinions.

I often take a brand-new suit or hat and throw it up against the wall a few times to get that stiff, square newness out of it.

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.

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

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.

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

Disco is just jitterbug.