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.

Dancing is a sweat job.

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.

Dancing is a vertical interpretation of a horizontal intention.

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?'

I don't remember anybody ever pointing me out as a dancing prodigy, but I played a not bad second base.

It's nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling records I was never worth anything particularly except as a collector's item.