"From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard…" — Dirk Benedict
"From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work."
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55 Quotes by Dirk Benedict
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Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the…
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Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.
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Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and…
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It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become…
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I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!
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I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.
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To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted…
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A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
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Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.
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Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute…
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In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could…
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Life without kids is like a camera without film.
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More Astaire Quotes
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one of 52 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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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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Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.
— 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…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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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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We attend to his later performances as a dramatic actor with respect, but watching the nondancing, nonsinging Astaire is like…
— Fred Astaire
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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…
— Gene Kelly
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I was spawned by some pretty good people in this business - Mr. Astaire, Mr. Tracy. They stopped and took…
— Robert Wagner
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When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at…
— 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…
— Rita Hayworth
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