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.

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.

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

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.

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.