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 Copy Share Image
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 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
If it doesn't look easy it is that we have not tried hard enough yet. — 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… — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
