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 Astaire is a hell of a dancer. — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
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 was never worth anything particularly except as a collector's item. — 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
