Fred Astaire Quotes (13 Quotes)

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

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.

Some people seem to think that good dancers are born ,

Disco is just jitterbug.

I am not 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.

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.

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

Dancing is a sweat job.

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.

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.

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

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.

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around.