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.

Do I run around deploring the world? No. I'm just not into it. I was brought up that way.

I always found that kind of hard, and even though Gene Kelly was also a taskmaster, Bobby [Fosse] was tougher.

I did win [on a contest]. And that started me on a new path, and into show business.

You have to keep practicing, if you're really going to be good.

Singin' in the Rain (1952) and childbirth were the two hardest things I ever had to do in my life.

One take, so you better be ready and you better be good. One take and that was it. It was something that was spontaneous. Both Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason was like that as well.