Dance Legend Quotes

I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse.

Gene Kelly was one of the greatest dancers of all time and a taskmaster. He sought from you the absolute best - and he got it.

Fred Astaire was retired when he worked in 'The Pleasure of His Company.' They were lucky to get him to play the father part.

Fred Astaire is my real idol.

How many leaps did Nijinksy take before he made the one that startled the world? He took thousands and thousands and it is that legend that gives us the courage, the energy, and arrogance to go back into the studio knowing that while there is so little time to be born to the instant, you will work again among the many that you may once more be born as one. That is a dancer's world.

I didn't really know anything about Margot Fonteyn. I'd never really been a ballet child, so I had no idea what an incredibly huge icon she was, not just in terms of a creative icon - she was also a style icon. I had no idea she was up there with Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Onassis in terms of that kind of image.

I don't think anything I could ever do could make Gene Kelly look better than he was.

My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.

Gene Kelly has meant so much to me through the years. I used to dance in my living room in socks and a tee-shirt, no idea what I was doing, but wanting to dance like Gene.

I dug up my dad's old Fred Astaire tapes, and now I find him super-inspiring. He's, like, one of the best dancers.

I absolutely loved Jerome Robbins. We were all so lucky to be in the same room with this man.

Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century.

Fred Astaire was my dream dancer.

Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?

I'm known as The Big Baryshnikov.

Wrap up the 20th century; Fred Astaire is gone.

I have the person at home, the person who has his privacy, too. Michael Jackson didn't do the moonwalk in his kitchen.