Donald O'Connor famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Dancing is so wonderful. Once they start the music, your whole day, if it's been rotten, seems to melt away. You get carried away in the tune that you're moving to. It's a marvelous catharsis, to be able to get on top and tap dance.
-- Donald O'Connor

#Moving #Dancing #Tunes
I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get.
-- Donald O'Connor

#Awards #Achievement #Lifetime
I`m basically a hoofer, a tap dancer. I was always very good from the waist down, moving with the feet... I became what`s known as a total dancer, using the entire body in order to express what you want to express in tap dancing and line.
-- Donald O'Connor

#Moving #Order #Feet
I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.
-- Donald O'Connor

#Painting #Painter #I Can
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.
-- Donald O'Connor

#Long #Shapes #Genes
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.
-- Donald O'Connor

#Courage #Horse #Practice
I was born and raised to entertain other people. I've heard laughter and applause and known a lot of sorrow. Everything about me is based on show business - I think it will bring me happiness. I hope so.
-- Donald O'Connor

#Laughter #Thinking #People
You see, as far as the man's personality goes, there's no one who can touch Fred Astaire. He's unique.
-- Donald O'Connor

#Unique #Men #Personality
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.
-- Donald O'Connor

#Missing #Over You #Three
Short people have long faces, and long people have short faces. Big people have little humor, and little people have no humor at all.
-- Donald O'Connor

#Long #People #Littles
It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.
-- Donald O'Connor

#Rotten #Wonderful #Whole
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.
-- Donald O'Connor

#Years #Laughing #Orchestra
I'm not a good choreographer: I can't remember what I put down.
-- Donald O'Connor

#Remember #Choreographers #I Can

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