I'm not a very good singer. I just know how to present a song, and honey, I think I've been through enough to do it right.

I have two false hips, a wired-up right knee, two crushed discs and scoliosis. If I don't dance, I seize up.

Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.

If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it.

He [Gene Kelly] once told me dancing was a man's game, as much of a sport as baseball itself. And he made us believe that. He changed our minds and suddenly, all of America wanted to dance just like Gene Kelly.

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

(in the film "That's Entertainment!" - 1974) Thank God for film, it can capture a moment and hold it there forever. If anyone ever asks you: "Who were they?" or "What made them so good?" I think a reel of film answers that question.