He was a dictator who made me work harder and longer than anyone

But when you're in a picture with Astaire, you've got rocks in your head if you do much dancing. He's so quick-footed and so light that it's impossible not to …

I work bigger. Fred's style is intimate. I'm very jealous of that when I see him on the small screen. Fred looks so great on TV. I'd love to put on white tie a…

He's the greatest dancer who ever lived--greater than Nijinsky.

Hold their noses to the grindstone.

There is absolutely no substitute for hard work.

Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere…