I Took It As It Came And

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

She's One Of Those Third Year Girls Who Gripe My Liver... You Know, American College Kids. They Come Over Here To Take Their Third Year And Lap Up A Little Culture... They're Officious And Dull. They're Always Making Profound Observations They've Overheard.

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.

I Don't Understand The Whole Concept Of Doubles. They Used To Do That In The Early Sound Films In Hollywood, But I Thought We Had Gotten Rid Of That. Now Not Only Do You Have Doubles, But As In Flashdance, You Have Triples, Quadruples. From My Point Of View It Is Bad For The Art.

Any Man Who Looks Like A Sissy While Dancing Is Just A Lousy Dancer.