Donald O'Connor Quotes

• 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.

  Donald O'Connor

  Moving, Dancing, Tunes

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

  Donald O'Connor

  Rotten, Wonderful, Whole

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• 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 on show business - I think it will bring me happiness. I hope so.

  Donald O'Connor

  Laughter, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Donald O'Connor

  Moving, Order, Feet

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

  Donald O'Connor

  Awards, Achievement, Lifetime

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Donald O'Connor

  Long, Shapes, Genes

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

  Donald O'Connor

  Painting, Painter, I Can

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• 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 for the first time. The courage came with practice.

  Donald O'Connor

  Courage, Horse, Practice

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• 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 the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years.

  Donald O'Connor

  Years, Laughing, Orchestra

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• 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

  Unique, Men, Personality

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• 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

  Long, People, Littles

  "Fictional character: Cosmo Brown". "Singin' in the Rain", www.imdb.com. 1952.

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• 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 have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.

  Donald O'Connor

  Missing, Over You, Three

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

  Donald O'Connor

  Remember, Choreographers, I Can

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