I'm not exactly repulsive.

- Vera-Ellen

Well, you're not exactly Superman, but you're awfully available.

- Vera-Ellen

Getting involved is so, so . . . involving.

- Vera-Ellen

Dancing is like breathing-missing a day doing either is very bad.

- Vera-Ellen

I was called a bookish child. Mother sent me to a ballet teacher in Cincinnati when I was nine years old. I guess I was an awkward child and the fami…

- Vera-Ellen

Just look at me now - I've never been so happy in my life!

- Vera-Ellen