I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get.

You see, as far as the man's personality goes, there's no one who can touch Fred Astaire. He's unique.

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.

It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.

Short people have long faces, and long people have short faces. Big people have little humor, and little people have no humor at all.

I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.

I'm not a good choreographer: I can't remember what I put down.

The God that we commonly know may be less sinister than the true God that we don't know for sure.

You like a person not because of what they have but for what they truly are.

To ask, 'How do you do it?' is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a 'how' if there is a big enough 'why'.

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.

The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons.

Pennsylvania is a state that jasn't gone Republican since 1988.

We're all equal before a wave.

With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.

Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.