In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment.
It's so wonderful. . . if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.
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.
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.
I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.
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.
You see, as far as the man's personality goes, there's no one who can touch Fred Astaire. He's unique.
There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.
None of us can know what tomorrow will hold, because each day has its good and its bad moments.
I was early in my career and didn't understand that people were looking at me and critiquing me yet.
If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place. It is magical not because it tricks us or changes unexpectedly into something else, but because it can be so vividly and brilliantly.