Fred Astaire Quotes

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  • I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.

  • But I do nothing that I don't like, such as "inventing" up to the arty or "down" to the corny. I happen to relish a certain type of corn. What I think is the really dangerous approach is the "let's be artistic" attitude. I know that artistry just happens.

    "Steps in Time" by Fred Astaire, (pp. 6-7), 1959.
  • And that love that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart.

  • If your gonna go down, go down swinging!

  • When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.

  • Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • For ballroom dancing, remember that your partners have their own distinctive styles also. Cultivate flexibility. Be able to adapt your style to that of your partner. In doing so, you are not surrendering your individuality, but blending it with that of your partner.

  • Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.

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  • It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

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  • Oh, there's no such thing as my favorite performance. I can't sit here today and look back, and say, Top Hat was better than Easter Parade or any of the others. I just don't look back, period. When I finish with a project, I say 'all right, that's that. What's next?'

    American Classic Screen Magazine, September/October 1978.
  • Slippery stages were the terror of my life.

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  • Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.

    "Citizen cane". www.theguardian.com. November 19, 1999.
  • Disco is just jitterbug.

    Dance  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 1977.
  • The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

    Jobs  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Dancing is a vertical interpretation of a horizontal intention.

  • I'm just a hoofer with a spare set of tails.

    Dance  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • In dealing with a girl or a horse, one lets nature take its course

  • I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • I just told my agent to forget all other projects for me. I was waiting for Audrey Hepburn. She asked for me, and I was ready. This could be the last and only opportunity I’d have to work with the great and lovely Audrey Hepburn and I was not missing it. Period.

  • The unpadded shoulders, the three-buttoned long and boxy coat, the too-short, thin pants, and the thin ties with striped buttoned shirts in dark colors-well, I suppose this may go very well with some personalities but it's not for me. To me, all such look like TV producers. Maybe they want to.

    "Flashback Friday: The Astute Astaire" by Richard Hublar, www.gq.com. October 14, 2011.
  • I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

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  • I have never had anything that I can remember in the business - and that includes all the movies and the stage shows and everything - that I didn't enjoy. I didn't like some of the small-time vaudeville, because we weren't going on and getting better. Aside from that, I didn't dislike anything.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Of course, Ginger was able to accomplish sex through dance. We told more through our movements instead of the big clinch. We did it all in the dance.

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  • People think I was born in top hat and tails.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Why didn't you tell me I was in love with you?

    "Fictional character: Don Hewes". "Easter Parade", www.imdb.com. 1948.
  • Dancing is a sweat job.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I often take a brand-new suit or hat and throw it up against the wall a few times to get that stiff, square newness out of it.

  • I don't like top hats, white ties, and tails.

  • Be yourself-but don't be conspicuous.

    "Flashback Friday: The Astute Astaire" by Richard Hublar, www.gq.com. October 14, 2011.
  • When working on my choreography I am not always receptive to outside suggestions or opinions. I believe that if you have something in mind in the way of a creation, such as a new dance, a sequence, or an effect, you are certain to come up with inaccurate criticism and damaging results if you go around asking for opinions.

    "Steps in Time" by Fred Astaire, (p. 6), 1959.
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