Fred Astaire Quotes

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• The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
• 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…
• Disco is just jitterbug.
• 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…
• Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.
• We attend to his later performances as a dramatic actor with respect, but watching the nondancing, nonsinging Astaire is like watching a grounded skylark.
• If your gonna go down, go down swinging!
• 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…
• Be yourself-but don't be conspicuous.
• 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.
• 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…
• Either the camera will dance, or I will.
• People think I was born in top hat and tails.
• 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…
• 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…
• If we followed our own advice, we'd be successful.
• Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century.
• Chance is the fool's name for Fate
• 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…
• It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

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