Lise: Paris has ways of making people forget. Jerry: Paris? No, not this city. It's too real and too beautiful. It never lets you forget anything. It reaches in and opens you wide, and you stay that way.

Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.

There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.

Lise: Paris has ways of making people forget. Jerry: Paris? No, not this city. It's too real and too beautiful. It never lets you forget anything. It reaches in and opens you wide, and you stay that way.

I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.

I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.