Fred Astaire Quotes (1899-1987)

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“Can't act, slightly bald, also dances.”

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“Astaire can't do anything bad.”

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“Either the camera will dance, or I will.”

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“By far the gentlest man I have ever known.”

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“You can get dancers like this for $75 a week.”

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“Come on, Fred, I'm not your sister, you know.”

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“A: Nobody really. Well, actually, Fred Astaire.”

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“The history of dance on film begins with Astaire.”

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“You're the nimble tread/Of the feet of Fred Astaire”

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“I don't make love by kissing, I make love by dancing.”

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“He's a genius...a classical dancer like I never saw in my life.”

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“You know, you so-and-so, you've a little of the hoodlum in you.”

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“Q: What great singers of the past do you wish had sung your music?”

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“There is no setup in Hollywood that compares with an Astaire picture.”

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“When you talk about Fred Astaire, you talk about heaven. What more can I say?”

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“If I was black and blue, it was Gene. If I didn't have a scratch it was Fred.”

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“I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire.”

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“(Cary Grant) is, along with Fred Astaire, the best-dressed actor in American movies”

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“As a dancer he stands alone, and no singer knows his way around a song like Fred Astaire.”

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“Fred Astaire once worked so hard/ he often lost his breath/ and now he taps all other chaps to death”

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“For a guy who had retired ostensibly, your comeback represents the greatest event since Satchel Paige.”

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“Me? I play Gene Kelly...It's a guy who produces, directs, sings, and dances. who else could it be but Kelly?”

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“I once said that fifty years from now, the only one of today's dancers who will be remembered is Fred Astaire.”

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“I have no desire to prove anything by it. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance.”

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“He was not just the best ballroom dancer, or tap dancer, he was simply the greatest, most imaginative, dancer of our time.”

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Fred Astaire Quotes by Topic

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Fred Astaire on Dance

“I have no desire to prove anything by it. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance.”

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Fred Astaire on Ginger Rogers 4 quotes

“She had guts.”

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Misattributed Quotes

Quotes mistakenly credited to Fred Astaire