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

I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. But if I put on a white tails and tux like Fred Astaire, I still looked like a truck driver.

The only thing is that ordinarily when I do dance with [women] they think I am suddenly going to throw them over a table or twist them all around. All I want to do is one-two, one-two-three - a simple fox trot. But they're shaking with anticipation at the thought that I'm about to whip them around and then toss them on the roof.

She's one of those third year girls who gripe my liver... You know, American college kids. They come over here to take their third year and lap up a little culture... They're officious and dull. They're always making profound observations they've overheard.

When they do let them sustain on screen from head to toe, though, then you know they must think the person is a good dancer.

America now has more and better dancers than they have ever had in the history of the country, but that won't account for the public wants to see.

I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.