"I am the Fred Astaire of karate." — Jean-Claude Van Damme

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• No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
• Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
• I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
• From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work. — Dirk Benedict
• Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls. — Leslie Caron
• We attend to his later performances as a dramatic actor with respect, but watching the nondancing, nonsinging Astaire is like… — Fred Astaire
• If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando. — Gene Kelly
• Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat. — Gene Kelly
• I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. But if I put on a white… — Gene Kelly
• I was spawned by some pretty good people in this business - Mr. Astaire, Mr. Tracy. They stopped and took… — Robert Wagner
• When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at… — Alan Rickman
• 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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