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.

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

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

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.

I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy.

I may be rancid butter, but I'm on your side of the bread.