Donald O'Connor Quotes

I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be so frustrating. It must be always be so good, so perfect.

I will never leave choreography and will keep doing songs, too.

I've choreographed all of my movies.

I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to get off, so I danced off. I've been dancing ever since, but I'm still a comedian.

I don't think anybody would be interested in my memoir - and my memory isn't very good either!

There are a lot of artists that I love, and I think they're really talented, and they're good dancers as well. I've always wished that I could combine that.

I was always the kid down the street who got the other kids to put on a show. But it was only when I was 19, and discovered ballet and contemporary dance, that I got interested in the fact that you could have a whole evening of dance - rather than just waiting for the dancers in a musical.

'The Company' was interesting. I didn't love it, although it might be compelling to someone who isn't a dancer. There wasn't a lot of dialogue, and you were just kind of observing the creative process of choreography and in class.

Choreography is something that I am always going to take up, and it will be on the forefront.

I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.

What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'

I always loved to dance and move. I probably should have been a mime or something like that.

Dance is in my background.

Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.

Anybody could write a bad script, and I'm one of them, you know?

I just listened to regular commercial music from Korea. I would just follow the choreographed dance routines. I didn't have any ambitions of pursuing rapping. I liked dancing, so I did that.

I love to dance. I love to perform. I love to entertain.

I like to express myself inside of the work that is given, and I let the dancers do the same.

I've admired Lawrence master from his choreographer days. I love how he experiments and makes it work. I like his attention to detail and the intrigue in his movies.

Dance fascinates me, and it is perhaps the most enriching audio-visual realm for a musician. Film-making also fascinates me.

I enjoy being a choreographer.

I'm always in the studio working on music and dancing.

All of the vintage photos of Ballets Russes are so inspiring.

Writing for dance was a wonderfully freeing experience.

I was always interested in choreography - in making people think and feel something.