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 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.

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.

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

Of course, Ginger was able to accomplish sex through dance. We told more through our movements instead of the big clinch. We did it all in the dance.

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

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.