I started to earn money because we didn't have money.

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.

My body weeps to livewhen you make me believe that someday I will be deadsoul sleepless in graveyard's bed

The world is not beautiful. Therefore it is.

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves.

Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.

The John Ford pictures I made are highly regarded, but at the time they didn't seem like that.

Let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.

In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.

In the present the eternal stays, the rest all drops out.

Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe.