Donald O'Connor Quotes

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.