Quotes by Donald O'connor - Page 1

Doing those costume pictures was wonderful.
Donald O'connor / Dancer
Costume
Pictures
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I'm not a good choreographer: I can't remember what I put down.
Donald O'connor / Dancer
Choreographers
I Can
Remember
Choreographer
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Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.
Donald O'connor / Dancer
Trick
Walls
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I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.
Donald O'connor / Dancer
I Can
Painter
Painting
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I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get.
Donald O'connor / Dancer
Achievement
Awards
Lifetime
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It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.
Donald O'connor / Dancer
Rotten
Seems
Whole
Wonderful
Music Start Your
Away
Music Day Your
Melt
Start
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You see, as far as the man's personality goes, there's no one who can touch Fred Astaire. He's unique.
Donald O'connor / Dancer
Men
Personality
Unique
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Short people have long faces, and long people have short faces. Big people have little humor, and little people have no humor at all.
Donald O'connor / Dancer
Littles
Long
People
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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.
Donald O'connor / Dancer
Courage
First Time
Harness
Horse
Practice
Time Me Weird
Weird
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I was born and raised to entertain other people. I've heard laughter and applause and known a lot of sorrow. Everything about me is based on show business - I think it will bring me happiness. I hope so.
Donald O'connor / Dancer
Laughter
People
Thinking
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I didn't smoke. I didn't smoke then, and I don't smoke now. We worked every day - that keeps you in pretty good shape. We could go for a long time in one take. You had to be in good shape with Gene Kelly.
Donald O'connor / Dancer
Genes
Long
Long Time
Shapes
Smoke
Time Good Long
Gene
Good Shape
Pretty Good
Shape
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Dancing is so wonderful. Once they start the music, your whole day, if it's been rotten, seems to melt away. You get carried away in the tune that you're moving to. It's a marvelous catharsis, to be able to get on top and tap dance.
Donald O'connor / Dancer
Dancing
Moving
Tunes
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I`m basically a hoofer, a tap dancer. I was always very good from the waist down, moving with the feet... I became what`s known as a total dancer, using the entire body in order to express what you want to express in tap dancing and line.
Donald O'connor / Dancer
Feet
Moving
Order
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I think you should make more movies, more musicals. I think the public deserves that. I think this country deserves to be able to get out and foster that talent. Give them an opportunity to become stars. I think the whole idea is wonderful.
Donald O'connor / Dancer
Stars
Foster
Musicals
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Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years.
Donald O'connor / Dancer
Laughing
Orchestra
Years
Something Else
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That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.
Donald O'connor / Dancer
Missing
Over You
Performers
Three
Good Business Chance
Miss
Craft
Business Good Chance
Pictures
Row
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