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

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If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.

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Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.

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I never wanted to be a dancer. It's true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

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

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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.

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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.

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