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.

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.

Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.

You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

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

If I played a tough kid on the street I couldn't go out there and get into fifth position. I had to dance like a tough kid on the street.

There's nothing revolutionary about Saturday Night Fever . You can see the same kind of movement at your local disco.

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 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.

My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.

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.

Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional.

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

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

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

When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.

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