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

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

You see, as far as the man's personality goes, there's no one who can touch Fred Astaire. He's unique.

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

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.

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.