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Donald Oconnor
 
Date of birth: 28 August 1925
Date of death: 27 September 2003
Country Of Origin: America
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Singer

Dancer

Actor

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" Doing those costume pictures was wonderful. "

Donald Oconnor
" Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days. "

Donald Oconnor
" I can picture things, like a painter would, though I'm not good at painting, either. "

Donald Oconnor
" 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. "

Donald Oconnor
" I grew up in vaudeville. All the hoofers used to get together in a drugstore down the street from the theater, or what-have-you, and if they knew a new step they would teach it to you. I learned hoofing steps that way. But going into ballet didn't come until I made those pictures with Kelly. "

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" I like it live. I think the numbers are live in the movie. If they replaced any, it would have been due to extreme set noise. "

Donald Oconnor
" I think you should make more movies, more musicals. I think the public deserves that. I think this country deserves to be able to get out and foster that talent. Give them an opportunity to become stars. I think the whole idea is wonderful. "

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" 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. "

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" I'm not a good choreographer: I can't remember what I put down. "

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

Donald Oconnor
" My brothers and my mother were all dancers, outside of whatever else they did, like acrobatics, high-wire, trapeze. I was born in a circus. "

Donald Oconnor
" Pratfalls are always funny. A performer has to answer to himself. If you think something's funny, you've got to go out there and try. It's only by trial and error that you find out. "

Donald Oconnor
" 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 kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years. "

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" 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 chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business. "

Donald Oconnor
" 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. "

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