Fred Astaire Quotes - Page 2

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• I am bit sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause.

  Fred Astaire

  Dance, Feet, Messages

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

  Fred Astaire

  Heart, Wrinkles, Noses

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• 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.

  Fred Astaire

  Dance, Sex, Movement

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• There comes a day when people begin to say, 'Why doesn't that old duffer retire?' I want to get out while they're still saying Astaire is a hell of a dancer.

  Fred Astaire

  People, Dancer, Want

  "The New Pictures: 'Blue Skies'". TIME Magazine, (p. 103), October 14, 1946.

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• 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.

  Fred Astaire

  Fashion, Wall, Squares

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• 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.

  Fred Astaire

  Believe, Mind, Criticism

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

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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.

  Fred Astaire

  Get Better, Vaudeville, Remember

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

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• Dancing is a sweat job.

  Fred Astaire

  Motivational, Dance, Jobs

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

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

  Fred Astaire

  Motivational, Dance, Moving

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

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• It's nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling records I was never worth anything particularly except as a collector's item.

  Fred Astaire

  Nice, Records, Selling

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

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• 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.

  Fred Astaire

  Attitude, Thinking, Corn

  "Steps in Time" by Fred Astaire, (pp. 6-7), 1959.

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• Disco is just jitterbug.

  Fred Astaire

  Dance, Justice, Disco

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 1977.

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• I inherited the knowledge that sometimes (talents) not only skip a generation, but sometimes run screaming from it. Ironically, it was the singing non-ability that helped feed my love of laughter.

  Fred Astaire

  Running, Laughter, Singing

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• Slippery stages were the terror of my life.

  Fred Astaire

  Dance, Stage, Terror

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

  Fred Astaire

  Thinking, People, Tails

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

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• 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.

  Fred Astaire

  Dark, Color, Ties

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

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• I don't remember anybody ever pointing me out as a dancing prodigy, but I played a not bad second base.

  Fred Astaire

  Dancing, Remember, Prodigies

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

  Fred Astaire

  White, Ties, Tails

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

  Fred Astaire

  Dance, Dancing, Tails

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

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• 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.

  Fred Astaire

  Inspiration, Men, Dancing

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

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• We attend to his later performances as a dramatic actor with respect, but watching the nondancing, nonsinging Astaire is like watching a grounded skylark.

  Fred Astaire

  Respect, Actors, Dramatic

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• I had some ballet training but didn't like it. It was like a game to me.

  Fred Astaire

  Games, Ballet, Training

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

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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?'

  Fred Astaire

  Easter, Looks, Today

  American Classic Screen Magazine, September/October 1978.

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