Fred Astaire Quotes

Do it big, do it right, and do it with style.

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

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

Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.

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.

Dancing is a vertical interpretation of a horizontal intention.

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

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

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

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.

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

I don't make love by kissing, I make love by dancing.

If your gonna go down, go down swinging!

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.

Be yourself-but don't be conspicuous.

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

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

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

Chance is the fool's name for Fate

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.

Why didn't you tell me I was in love with you?

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.

Either the camera will dance, or I will.

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.

In dealing with a girl or a horse, one lets nature take its course