Fred Astaire famous quotes

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

#Inspirational #Jobs #Athlete

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

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 #May #Want

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

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.
-- Fred Astaire

#Dancing #Desire #Just Dance

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

Dancing is a sweat job.
-- Fred Astaire

#Dance #Jobs #Sweat

I just put my feet in the ground and move them around.
-- Fred Astaire

#Motivational #Dance #Moving

And that love that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart.
-- Fred Astaire

#Heart #Wrinkles #Noses

Do it big, do it right and do it with style.
-- Fred Astaire

#Dance #Dancing #Style

Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.
-- Fred Astaire

#Technology #Littles

Why didn't you tell me i was in love with you?
-- Fred Astaire

#Love You

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

#Men #Dancing #Age

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

#Dance #Memorable #Want

Slippery stages were the terror of my life.
-- Fred Astaire

#Dance #Stage #Terror

I'm just a hoofer with a spare set of tails.
-- Fred Astaire

#Dance #Tails

It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire

#Memorable #Take Time #It Takes Time

I don't like top hats, white ties, and tails.
-- Fred Astaire

#White #Ties #Tails

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

#Looks #Research #Easy

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

Chance is the fool's name for Fate
-- Fred Astaire

#Fate #Names #Fool

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

#Motivational #Dance #Moving

People think I was born in top hat and tails.
-- Fred Astaire

#Thinking #People #Tails

Either the camera will dance, or I will.
-- Fred Astaire

#Cameras

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

Disco is just jitterbug.
-- Fred Astaire

#Dance #Justice #Disco

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 #Dancing #Shut Up

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

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

#Dance #Movement

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

If your gonna go down, go down swinging!
-- Fred Astaire

#Life

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 #Ties #Color

Be yourself-but don't be conspicuous.
-- Fred Astaire

#Being Yourself

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

If we followed our own advice, we'd be successful.
-- Fred Astaire

#Successful #Advice #Fortune Cookie

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

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