Fred Astaire Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 put my feet in the ground and move them around.

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.

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

There comes a day when people begin to say: "Why doesn't that old duffer retire?" I want to get out while they're still saying Astaire is a hell of a dancer.