I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls.

I miss the romance. I keep saying this over and over again, but dance follows music. And if the accent today is percussion and rhythm and loudness, then that is the way the dance numbers will be. But it is pretty hard on romance with seven guitars, three drums, and no melody instruments in the band.

Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.

I don't even want to discuss Flashdance. I'm no critic, but that's an interesting phenomenon, that picture.

If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.

Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional.

I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox.