I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.

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.

He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.

On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.

The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.

There's a lot of people that try to come between my clique and try to stop what we're doin', but we got no mercy for 'em.

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.

At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed

Only for today, I will devote ten minutes of my time to some good reading, remembering that just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul