I began as a true beginner, not knowing how to dance or perform. I just entered a local contest in town as a joke, because if you entered you got a free blouse and scarf.

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.

The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.

If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he who express himself by words or drawing then I can consider myself as one.

You arrogant little snot (John Hammond)

Very few restaurant workers could even dream of eating in the restaurants they work in. Many do not make a living wage.

We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.

We will rise above the lies, the smears, the ludicrous slanders from ludicrous and very, very dishonest reporters.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

The flower of life blooms in love and radiates love all around it.

Life for the unwell is discontinuous and unpredictable. Things just come out of nowhere. People try but mostly do a lousy job of taking care of you.

I had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.