Fred Quotes
157 quotes by 95 authors
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No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
— Dirk Benedict
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Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi…
— Bono
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Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.
— Leslie Caron
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I hear that 5 o'clock whistle in my mind like Fred Flintstone and I have to stop. I'm also not much of a morning writer.…
— Diablo Cody
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You can name your own salary in this business. I call mine Fred.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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Poor Fred - he's actually working on a typo, and somebody ought to tell him. Twice in the New Testament Jesus withered fig trees, Isaiah…
— Thom Hartmann
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I learned what research was all about as a research student [with] Stoppani ... Max Perutz, and ... Fred Sanger... From them, I always received…
— Cesar Milstein
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Fred Hoyle and I differ on lots of questions, but on this we agree: a common sense and satisfying interpretation of our world suggests the…
— Owen Gingerich
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Fred didn't have a favourite colour. He was just pleased that he could see all of the colours in the colour chart. That was his…
— Gabi Hollows
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Where's my white collarless shirt from Fred Segal? It's my most capable-looking outfit!
— Cher
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I am the Fred Astaire of karate.
— Jean-Claude Van Damme
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If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.
— Gene Kelly
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Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.
— Gene Kelly
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I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. But if I put on a white tails and tux like Fred…
— Gene Kelly
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When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing you never look…
— Alan Rickman
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Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 — that was my 'summer camp.' How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire…
— Rita Hayworth
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I love people and psychology. As a writer, I’m not so interested in Fred getting from the living room to the car. I want to…
— Dorianne Laux
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
— Jack Kroll
Who Wrote These Fred Quotes
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