Fred Astaire

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

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.

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.

I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

I am not 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.

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.

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

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

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.

Disco is just jitterbug.

Dancing is a sweat job.

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.

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.

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.