“He was a wonderful gentleman, elegant, with great humility. All the wo...” — Cyd Charisse Quote

“He was a wonderful gentleman, elegant, with great humility. All the wonderful things you can say about a person, you have to say about Fred Astaire.”

“Well, I swim quite a bit, and ride horseback. That's supposed to be bad for dancers, but I don't care - I like it. And then I collect dolls. I have them from lots of foreign countries.”

“Most dancers have a young body. This is part discipline and part desire, because just sitting around makes one feel sluggish.”

“The gesture of taking the watch from the pocket and looking at the time is very elegant for a man, but if I was going to create a pocket watch, I wanted it to be very modern. I didn't want to do old-fashioned.”

“I think Edie Sedgwick comes back, too. Every five or six years, there is always something about Edie, because she was so modern and stylish and elegant and hippie-ish, all at the same time. So I think that people will always love her.”

“In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.”