Bobby [Fosse] was very difficult to work with, he wanted to be a big star at MGM, but it was the end of making musical movies at the time.

I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.

Singin' in the Rain (1952) and childbirth were the two hardest things I ever had to do in my life.

The only way you learn is by failure.

I think you should control yourself a little bit, so you can walk, and when you die, you can walk to your own funeral.

Anything worthwhile is hard, and dancing is very hard, and if you've ever studied dancing of any kind you'd know that to be in precision, three people dancing together.

I do twenty minutes every time the refrigerator door opens and the light comes on.

I'll just stay in [show business] till they stuff me like Trigger, when I drop dead.

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

If you're a dancer, study singing. You have to do everything and do it well. You have to study acting. You have to study all of it. You have to find workshops, get out on the stage...and fail.

I think one of my favourite films is 'Dark Victory' with Bette Davis. Why? She was so wonderful in that film. And maybe I just want a good cry once in a while without having to go through a divorce.

You cannot fully wrap your mind around God, so better to fully wrap God around your mind.

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

But the most important thing I know is that I want the possibility of you more than the reality of [her].

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.

I still read newspaper comics, but without much hope for their future.

To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears!

Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive.

There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries.