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 bus…

- Donald O'Connor

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 …

- Donald O'Connor

It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.

- Donald O'Connor

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 …

- Donald O'Connor

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 yo…

- Donald O'Connor

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 courag…

- Donald O'Connor

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

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, us…

- Donald O'Connor

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

- Donald O'Connor