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.

I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.

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.

I said I need a little more Fred Astaire and a little less Ricky Martin.

My mom always had me and my brother watching old Fred Astaire movies.