Dancing is so wonderful. Once they start the music, your whole day, if it's been rotten, seems to melt away. You get carried away in the tune that you're moving to. It's a marvelous catharsis, to be able to get… — Donald O'Connor Copy Share Image
I think you should make more movies, more musicals. I think the public deserves that. I think this country deserves to be able to… — Donald O'Connor Copy Share Image
I didn't smoke. I didn't smoke then, and I don't smoke now. We worked every day - that keeps you in pretty good shape.… — Donald O'Connor Copy Share Image
Short people have long faces, and long people have short faces. Big people have little humor, and little people have no humor at all. — Donald O'Connor Copy Share Image
Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days. — Donald O'Connor Copy Share Image
Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you...… — Donald O'Connor Copy Share Image
Dancing is so wonderful. Once they start the music, your whole day, if it's been rotten, seems to melt away. You get carried away… — Donald O'Connor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get. — Donald O'Connor Copy Share Image
I'm basically a hoofer, a tap dancer. I was always very good from the waist down, moving with the feet... I became what's known… — Donald O'Connor Copy Share Image
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 out; you… — Donald O'Connor Copy Share Image
