I'd never seen him out front before. It was also the first time I realized that Fred had sex appeal. Fred. Wherever did he get it? - Fred Astaire

For a guy who had retired ostensibly, your comeback represents the greatest event since Satchel Paige.

He has a remarkable ear for intonation, a great sense of rhythm and what is most important, he has great style - style in my way of thinking is a matter of delivery, phrasing, pace, emphasis, and most of all presence.

He lacks confidence to the most enormous degree of all the people in the world. He will not even go to see his rushes. He’ll stay out in the alley and pace up and down and worry and collar you when you come out and say: ‘How good was so and so?’, and he’ll keep you for 45 minutes. It would be much simpler if he would go and look at them himself, you know? But he always thinks he’s no good.