People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.
I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get.
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 on top and tap dance.
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 could go for a long time in one take. You had to be in good shape with Gene Kelly.
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 a total dancer, using the entire body in order to express what you want to express in tap dancing and line.
I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
I've learned that loving your self requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world - our own self worth.
As for the complex ways of living, I love them not, however much I practice them. In as many places as possible, I will get my feet down to the earth.
A train will bring you back to the place you came from, but it will not return you home.