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

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

Why didn't you tell me I was in love with you?

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.

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.

Oh, there's no such thing as my favorite performance. I can't sit here today and look back, and say, Top Hat was better than Easter Parade or any of the others. I just don't look back, period. When I finish with a project, I say 'all right, that's that. What's next?'