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

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.

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

Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.

Either the camera will dance, or I will.

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.

Slippery stages were the terror of my life.