When you have a Dancing partner, there's always gonna be a moment where the girl's gonna cry, Ginger didn't do that. But, most every other girl I've worked with have cried because they said "aah, I can't do it" and I have to go "Yes, you can, Shut up!" and they do do it.

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

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

Dancing is a sweat job.

Slippery stages were the terror of my life.

I don't remember anybody ever pointing me out as a dancing prodigy, but I played a not bad second base.

Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century.