I didn't want to be a dancer... I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.

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.

At 14 I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship. Only later did I discover that you dance joy. You dance love. You dance dreams.

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

The future of dance will always be tied up with the public's acceptance of the star. If they accept the star, then they'll accept the dance.

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.

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