I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.

Kids talk to me and say they want to do musicals again because they've studied the tapes of the old films. We didn't have that. We thought once we had made it, even on film, it was gone except for the archives.

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

In film, a dancer should always be shot from head to toe, because that way you can see the whole body and that is the art of dancing. Nowadays they shoot the nose. Left nostril. Right nostril. Hand. Foot. Bust. Derrière. The film prevents you from determining who is a good dancer and who is not.

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

I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.

I never wanted to be a dancer. It's true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates.