Of all the actors and actresses I've ever worked with, the hardest worker is Fred Astaire. He behaved like he was a young man whose whole destiny depended on being successful in his first film. He rehearses between takes, after takes - there's no limit to his professionalism

The main point of Flying Down to Rio is the screen promise of Fred Astaire.... He's assuredly a bet after this one, for he's distinctly likeable on the screen,…

He is a truly complex fellow, not unlike the Michelangelos and da Vincis of the Renaissance period. He's a supreme artist but he is constantly filled with doub…

You can get dancers like this for 75$ a week

[Madonna] worked so hard that it was really very touching. She's a perfectionist and there's never been anyone on the show that wanted to rehearse more than Ma…

I fell in love with the whole ritual. The lights going down, the curtain going up, telling a story to a large group of people in the dark. It was one of those …

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it; an amateur is one who can't when he does feel like it.