The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it.
Short people have long faces, and long people have short faces. Big people have little humor, and little people have no humor at all.
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.
Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity.
If I seem detached or distant, it's because I think this is a more exact reproduction of life, where you hide as much as you show. When I see a scene in which feelings get loudly exteriorized, I say to myself, 'Well, at least this never happens to me. ' I very rarely go through this type of expression. Most of the time things are hidden or at least much more subdued.
Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny, the way monogamy is funny, the way someone falling down in the street is funny. I entered a revolving door and emerged as a human being. When you think of me is my face electronically blurred?
The vast majority of Airmen we train are going to be somewhere in harm's way within the next year or two. It is up to us to impart to them the talent and skill they need to accomplish their mission in a world-class fashion and at the same time make sure we get them back safely to the families that love them.