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Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in your head.
— Ann Miller
I just put my feet in the ground and move them around.
— Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire is the Carioca, the Continental, the very Piccolino of romance.
— Archie Frederick Collins
Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.
— Morton Feldman
Chance is the fool's name for Fate
— Fred Astaire
I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.
— Burt Reynolds
Fred Astaire's got nothing on me.
— Si Robertson
Slippery stages were the terror of my life.
— Fred Astaire
Don't just walk through the flames. Get your Fred Astaire on and DANCE through them. Joy is around everywhere, even when the night falls hard.
— J.R. Ward
I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.
— John Travolta
Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century.
— Fred Astaire
Why didn't you tell me i was in love with you?
— Fred Astaire
If your gonna go down, go down swinging!
— Fred Astaire
Be yourself-but don't be conspicuous.
— Fred Astaire
Disco is just jitterbug.
— Fred Astaire
Dancing is a sweat job.
— Fred Astaire
Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.
— Fred Astaire
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
Either the camera will dance, or I will.
— Fred Astaire
Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained..
— Fred Astaire
I don't make love by kissing, I make love by dancing.
— Fred Astaire
I dug up my dad's old Fred Astaire tapes, and now I find him super-inspiring. He's, like, one of the best dancers.
— Adam G. Sevani
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
Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 - that was my 'summer camp.' How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire when I was 19?
— Rita Hayworth
I don't like top hats, white ties, and tails.
— Fred Astaire
[Hugh Jackman is] an Adamantium-laced Fred Astaire.
— Jon Stewart
You see, as far as the man's personality goes, there's no one who can touch Fred Astaire. He's unique.
— Donald O'Connor
This is what I understood by it: that for Astaire the person in the film was not especially connected with him.
— Zadie Smith
Fred Astaire never let you see him sweat, but he sweetened his deceptively casual virtuosity with just enough charm to make it irresistible.
— Terry Teachout
My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire.
— Andy Garcia
Sure he (Fred Astaire) was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did,..backwards and in high heels.
— Robert Thaves
Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.
— Leslie Caron
After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
— Ann Richards
People think I was born in top hat and tails.
— Fred Astaire
I can't rely upon sex and violence to sell my books
— Libi Astaire
When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.
— Gene Kelly
I'm just a hoofer with a spare set of tails.
— Fred Astaire
As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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
No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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
I just put my feet in the air and move them around.
— Fred Astaire
The Fred Astaire movies made a huge impression on me.
— Anton Du Beke
Do it big, do it right and do it with style.
— Fred Astaire
I don't remember anybody ever pointing me out as a dancing prodigy, but I played a not bad second base.
— Fred Astaire
If we followed our own advice, we'd be successful.
— Fred Astaire
From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
— Dirk Benedict
I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.
— Lorna Luft
I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.
— Lauren Bacall
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
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
When Fred Astaire danced, everything in this world was perfect.
— Stanley Donen
I was spawned by some pretty good people in this business - Mr. Astaire, Mr. Tracy. They stopped and took their time to talk to people.
— Robert Wagner
Wrap up the 20th century; Fred Astaire is gone.
— Jack Kroll
I am the Fred Astaire of karate.
— Jean-Claude Van Damme