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.

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

Dancing is a sweat job.

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.

If it doesn't look easy it is that we have not tried hard enough yet.

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

I just told my agent to forget all other projects for me. I was waiting for Audrey Hepburn. She asked for me, and I was ready. This could be the last and only opportunity I’d have to work with the great and lovely Audrey Hepburn and I was not missing it. Period.