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

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.

It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.

The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.

Everything is a gift of the universe -even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.

In almost any situation, it is far more devastating to keep your icy cool while the other person gets herself in a flush-cheeked, teary-eyed hot mess yelling in your face.

Frankly, I don't see markets; I see risks, rewards, and money.

Falling in love with another man is like falling into a vast vat of yourself. For some men this is ultimately nourishing, for others . . . it is drowning.

America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. There's nothing like America.

One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else

Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.