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.

This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

I have never had anything that I can remember in the business - and that includes all the movies and the stage shows and everything - that I didn't enjoy. I didn't like some of the small-time vaudeville, because we weren't going on and getting better. Aside from that, I didn't dislike anything.

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.

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

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

Either the camera will dance, or I will.