If you're a dancer, study singing. You have to do everything and do it well. You have to study acting. You have to study all of it. You have to find workshops, get out on the stage...and fail.

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

If you're a dancer, study singing.

I do twenty minutes every time the refrigerator door opens and the light comes on.

I'll be like Irving Berlin: "There's no business like show business."

Donald O'Connor was in the film [ 'Singin' in the Rain' ] as well, and he was only 27 years old. So we were closer in age, and had more fun together on the set. Gene was more my teacher and mentor.

The young people today are really so creative and talented - I mean, the ones who are really are and they get together and produce and create. They're an entirely different breed from what I was when I was their age.