And that love that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart.

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

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

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

Disco is just jitterbug.

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.

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