I am bit sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

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.

I don't make love by kissing, I make love by dancing.

Slippery stages were the terror of my life.

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.

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.