Quotes About Astaire

Astaire never thought of what he was doing as balletic, but Kelly was always trying to dance with women on points. And his choreography is so showy and flashy. He always looks self-satisfied to me.

Peter, leaving the library with a light step, and skipping down the stairs like an elderly Fred Astaire.

When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.

You see a little bit of Astaire in everybody's dancing--a pause here, a move there. It was all Astaire's originally.

He is terribly rare. He is like Bach, who in his time had a great concentration of ability, essence, knowledge, a spread of music. Astaire has that same concentration of genius; there is so much of the dance in him that it has been distilled.

I would love to do a Fred Astaire/Gene Kelly type movie musical - a fun, song and dance, romantic comedy. Or, even just play the lead in one of those broad comedies - that would just be fantastic.

As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire.

This is what I understood by it: that for Astaire the person in the film was not especially connected with him.

When the bespangled Miss Charisse wraps her phenomenal legs around [Fred] Astaire, she can be forgiven everything—even the fact that she reads her lines as if she learned them phonetically.