If we followed our own advice, we'd be successful.

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

When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.

I don't like top hats, white ties, and tails.

But I do nothing that I don't like, such as "inventing" up to the arty or "down" to the corny. I happen to relish a certain type of corn. What I think is the really dangerous approach is the "let's be artistic" attitude. I know that artistry just happens.

There comes a day when people begin to say, 'Why doesn't that old duffer retire?' I want to get out while they're still saying Astaire is a hell of a dancer.

Dancing is a sweat job.