Fred Astaire Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.”
-- Fred AstaireSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“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 your style.”
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“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.”
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“Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained..”
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“I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.”
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“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 of it.”
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“I just put my feet in the ground and move them around.”
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“And that love that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart.”
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“Do it big, do it right and do it with style.”
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“Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.”
-- Fred AstaireSource : "Citizen cane". www.theguardian.com. November 19, 1999.
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“Why didn't you tell me i was in love with you?”
-- Fred AstaireSource : "Fictional character: Don Hewes". "Easter Parade", www.imdb.com. 1948.
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“I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.”
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“This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.”
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“Slippery stages were the terror of my life.”
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“I'm just a hoofer with a spare set of tails.”
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“It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.”
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“I don't like top hats, white ties, and tails.”
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“If it doesn't look easy it is that we have not tried hard enough yet.”
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“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 partner. In doing so, you are not surrendering your individuality, but blending it with that of your partner.”
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“Chance is the fool's name for Fate”
-- Fred AstaireSource : The movie The Gay Divorcee
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“Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century.”
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“People think I was born in top hat and tails.”
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“Either the camera will dance, or I will.”
-- Fred AstaireSource : "How Astaire Works". Film and Theatre Today, (pp. 7-9), January 1950.
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“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 ready. This could be the last and only opportunity I’d have to work with the great and lovely Audrey Hepburn and I was not missing it. Period.”
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“When you have a Dancing partner, there's always gonna be a moment where the girl's gonna cry, Ginger didn't do that. But, most every other girl I've worked with have cried because they said "aah, I can't do it" and I have to go "Yes, you can, Shut up!" and they do do it.”
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“I am bit sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause.”
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“If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.”
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“We attend to his later performances as a dramatic actor with respect, but watching the nondancing, nonsinging Astaire is like watching a grounded skylark.”
-- Fred Astaire
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