I can still dance a little, yes, but I like singing better. It's more fun.
From Stanley Donen
What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.
I don't have too many friends. I have only a few people who I really love.
When Fred Astaire danced, everything in this world was perfect.
I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.
You see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals - because I had had a success, nobody wanted to allow me to direct a non-musical picture. It was so hard. And the only way I could get it going was to become a producer myself.
There was never any point in my life when I wasn't called Mr. Donen. I'm told my first words were, 'Call me Mr. Donen.' But I suspect that's apocryphal. My mother, Mrs. Donen, tended to exaggerate.
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