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

Dancing is a sweat job.

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

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

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.

Oh, there's no such thing as my favorite performance. I can't sit here today and look back, and say, Top Hat was better than Easter Parade or any of the others. I just don't look back, period. When I finish with a project, I say 'all right, that's that. What's next?'

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.