I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.

A testing director at MGM wrote a note to Fred Astaire after his first screen test, "Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little." After becoming a singing and dancing sensation, he kept the note as a reminder of his journey. Let where you came from open your mind to the path of possibilities of where you could go.

I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, backwards and on high heels