If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement. — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing… — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
I don't remember anybody ever pointing me out as a dancing prodigy, but I played a not bad second base. — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out… — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
For ballroom dancing, remember that your partners have their own distinctive styles also. Cultivate flexibility. Be able to adapt your style to… — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
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,… — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
“When a clumsy cloud from here, meets a fluffy little cloud from there, he billows towards her. She scurries away, and he scuds right… — Fred Astaire Copy Share
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… — Fred Astaire Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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… — Fred Astaire Copy Share
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… — Fred Astaire Copy Share
I have never had anything that I can remember in the business - and that includes all the movies and the stage shows and… — Fred Astaire Copy Share
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,… — Fred Astaire Copy Share
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… — Fred Astaire Copy Share
