78 Quotes by Fred Astaire

I have never had anything that I can remember in the business - and that includes all the movies and the stage shows and everything - that I didn't enjoy. I didn't like some of the small-time vaudeville, because we weren't going on and getting better. Aside from that, I didn't dislike anything.

Of course, Ginger was able to accomplish sex through dance. We told more through our movements instead of the big clinch. We did it all in the dance.

Disco is just jitterbug.

I had some ballet training but didn't like it. It was like a game to me.

People think I was born in top hat and tails.

I don't like top hats, white ties, and tails.

And that love that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart.

Oh, there's no such thing as my favorite performance. I can't sit here today and look back, and say: "Top Hat was better than Easter Parade or any of the others". I just don't look back, period. When I finish with a project, I say: "All right, that's that. What's next?"

I'm just a hoofer with a spare set of tails.