Fred Astaire Quotes

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• Do it big, do it right, and do it with style.

  Fred Astaire

  Dance, Dancing, Style

  "Joy Ride" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. March 31, 2014.

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• If it doesn't look easy it is that we have not tried hard enough yet.

  Fred Astaire

  Looks, Research, Easy

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• The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

  Fred Astaire

  Inspirational, Jobs, Athlete

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Fred Astaire

  Dance, Learning, Thinking

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• The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

  Fred Astaire

  Dance, Mistake, Reality

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• Dancing is a vertical interpretation of a horizontal intention.

  Fred Astaire

  Dancing, Intention, Interpretation

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

  Fred Astaire

  Dancing, Desire, Just Dance

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

  Fred Astaire

  Technology, Littles

  "Citizen cane". www.theguardian.com. November 19, 1999.

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• If we followed our own advice, we'd be successful.

  Fred Astaire

  Successful, Advice, Fortune Cookie

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• 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.

  Fred Astaire

  Dancing, Individuality, Style

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• I just put my feet in the ground and move them around.

  Fred Astaire

  Motivational, Dance, Moving

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• If your gonna go down, go down swinging!

  Fred Astaire

  Life, Ifs

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• I don't make love by kissing, I make love by dancing.

  Fred Astaire

  Kissing, Dancing, Making Love

  "We Thought We Could Do Anything: The Life of Screenwriters Phoebe and Henry Ephron" by Henry Ephron, New York: Norton, (p. 131), 1977.

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• 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.

  Fred Astaire

  Trying, Experience, May

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• Be yourself-but don't be conspicuous.

  Fred Astaire

  Being Yourself

  "Flashback Friday: The Astute Astaire" by Richard Hublar, www.gq.com. October 14, 2011.

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

  Fred Astaire

  Dance, Memorable, Take Time

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• If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.

  Fred Astaire

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

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• 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.

  Fred Astaire

  Dance, Mean, Desire

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• This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

  Fred Astaire

  Motivational, Dance, Time

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• 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.

  Fred Astaire

  Opportunity, Waiting, Missing

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• Why didn't you tell me I was in love with you?

  Fred Astaire

  Love You

  "Fictional character: Don Hewes". "Easter Parade", www.imdb.com. 1948.

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• Chance is the fool's name for Fate

  Fred Astaire

  Fate, Names, Fool

  The movie The Gay Divorcee

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• Either the camera will dance, or I will.

  Fred Astaire

  Cameras

  "How Astaire Works". Film and Theatre Today, (pp. 7-9), January 1950.

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• When you have a Dancing partner, there's always gonna be a moment where the girl's gonna cry, Ginger didn't do that. But, most every other girl I've worked with have cried because they said "aah, I can't do it" and I have to go "Yes, you can, Shut up!" and they do do it.

  Fred Astaire

  Girl, Yes You Can, Dancing

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• And that love that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart.

  Fred Astaire

  Heart, Wrinkles, Noses

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