"I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week."

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

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

"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."