Explore Quotes by Fred Astaire

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around.

I just put my feet in the air and move them around.

Disco is just jitterbug.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

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.

I don't like top hats, white ties, and tails.

It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

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.

Chance is the fool's name for Fate

Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century.

If we followed our own advice, we'd be successful.

I inherited the knowledge that sometimes (talents) not only skip a generation, but sometimes run screaming from it. Ironically, it was the singing non-ability that helped feed my love of laughter.

Of course, Ginger was able to accomplish sex through dance. We told more through our movements instead of the big clinch. We did it all in the dance.

Either the camera will dance, or I will.

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.

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.

People think I was born in top hat and tails.

The unpadded shoulders, the three-buttoned long and boxy coat, the too-short, thin pants, and the thin ties with striped buttoned shirts in dark colors-well, I suppose this may go very well with some personalities but it's not for me. To me, all such look like TV producers. Maybe they want to.

Be yourself-but don't be conspicuous.

We attend to his later performances as a dramatic actor with respect, but watching the nondancing, nonsinging Astaire is like watching a grounded skylark.

Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.