Donald O'Connor

I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.

— Donald O'Connor

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

— Donald O'Connor

Doing those costume pictures was wonderful.

— Donald O'Connor

I'm not a good choreographer: I can't remember what I put down.

— Donald O'Connor

It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.

— Donald O'Connor

Short people have long faces, and long people have short faces. Big people have little humor, and little people have no humor…

— Donald O'Connor

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put…

— Donald O'Connor

You see, as far as the man's personality goes, there's no one who can touch Fred Astaire. He's unique.

— Donald O'Connor

I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get.

— Donald O'Connor

I'm basically a hoofer, a tap dancer. I was always very good from the waist down, moving with the feet... I became…

— Donald O'Connor

Dancing is so wonderful. Once they start the music, your whole day, if it's been rotten, seems to melt away. You get…

— Donald O'Connor

Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going…

— Donald O'Connor

I was born and raised to entertain other people. I've heard laughter and applause and known a lot of sorrow. Everything about…

— Donald O'Connor

I think you should make more movies, more musicals. I think the public deserves that. I think this country deserves to be…

— Donald O'Connor

I didn't smoke. I didn't smoke then, and I don't smoke now. We worked every day - that keeps you in pretty…

— Donald O'Connor

That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're…

— Donald O'Connor