Donald O'Connor Quotes

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• I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.
• It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.
• 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 as…
• I was born and raised to entertain other people. I've heard laughter and applause and known a lot of sorrow. Everything about me is based…
• 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 don't…
• I'm not a good choreographer: I can't remember what I put down.
• 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... And…
• 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…
• They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness…
• 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. We…
• I think you should make more movies, more musicals. I think the public deserves that. I think this country deserves to be able to get…
• Doing those costume pictures was wonderful.
• Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

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