"When Fred Astaire danced, everything in this world……" — Stanley Donen
"When Fred Astaire danced, everything in this world was perfect."
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Stanley Donen
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17 Quotes by Stanley Donen
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I can still dance a little, yes, but I like singing better. It's more fun.
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I don't have too many friends. I have only a few people who I really love.
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I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.
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Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a…
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My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.
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What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.
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I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire…
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It was very hard to make 'Funny Face' in Paris because making movies is difficult and making a movie in…
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People always say to me, 'You have such a clearly defined sense of style,' and when I hear it, I…
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The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to…
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There was never any point in my life when I wasn't called Mr. Donen. I'm told my first words were,…
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There's no more film. Film is gone. We photograph digitally and electronically. We don't really use film the same way…
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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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From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
— Dirk Benedict
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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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