Actor Quotes

Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional.

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy.

My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.

I'll never starve.

I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.

I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.

I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.

I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls.

I didn't want to be a dancer. I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.

I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox.

At 14 I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship.

I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.

You see, I was the son of a baptist minister.

What I truly miss the most is having sufficient time to do all the things that need to be done around the house and for our friends.

Star Trek is perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me, in a career sense.

Star Trek has brought so much of what I want within my grasp.

My father started me singing in church.

My ambition is peace and perfection.

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

I refuse to be crude and selfish in any way.

I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.

I once aged 90 years old in one episode.

I m up at 5 in the morning and in bed by 10 in the evening.

I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man.

I have deep feelings for the welfare and comfort of others.

I have considered myself a mature actor.

I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.

I had fallen in love with California.

I am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.