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

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

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.

Short people have long faces, and long people have short faces. Big people have little humor, and little people have no humor at all.

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

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.

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.