Ann Miller Quotes

Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in your head.

Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.

I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers.

I did not get Botox because you wouldn't see any expression in my face. Hopefully it has paid off.

Now with tabloids and seeing people walking around in sweats pumping gas you're like, 'Okay, they're just like us.'

I don't want to work all of the time.

If theres something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.

I'm just looking for a kind of project that will have a decent role and is something that I'll really enjoy doing. There are a lot more opportunities in television.

There are great characters on television.

The thing is, you don't want to overact or be full of yourself.

Luckily because I had a family and children, my priorities changed. I mean, I'm very passionate about my work but I have other interests and other things that balance my life.

The whole point is to hook people and keep them interested.

Now I’m the go-to-girl for silent films.

The film business has changed so dramatically from when I started.

I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.

I have worked like a dog all my life, honey. Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn’t think you have a brain in your head.