I Arrived In Hollywood Twenty Pounds Overweight

Come On With The Rain / I’ve A Smile On My Face.

Kids Talk To Me And Say They Want To Do Musicals Again Because They've Studied The Tapes Of The Old Films. We Didn't Have That. We Thought Once We Had Made It, Even On Film, It Was Gone Except For The Archives.

I Never Wanted To Be A Dancer. It's True! I Wanted To Be A Shortstop For The Pittsburgh Pirates.

Fred Astaire Represented The Aristocracy, I Represented The Proletariat.

I Wanted To Invent Some Kind Of American Dance That Was Danced To The Music That I Grew Up On: Cole Porter And Rodgers And Hart And Irving Berlin. So I Evolved A Style That Certainly Didn't Catch On Right Away - But I Had Some Good Mentors In New York Who Encouraged Me.