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…

- Fred Astaire

If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.

- Fred Astaire

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.

- Fred Astaire

If it doesn't look easy it is that we have not tried hard enough yet.

- Fred Astaire

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

- Fred Astaire

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.

- Fred Astaire

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

- Fred Astaire

Dancing is a vertical interpretation of a horizontal intention.

- Fred Astaire

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.

- Fred Astaire