[on Ginger Rogers] When Ginger Rogers danced with Fred Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.
Gene Kelly
[on Fred Astaire] But when you`re in a picture with Astaire, you`ve got rocks in your head if you do much dancing. He`s so quick-footed and so light that it`s impossible not to look like a hay-digger compared with him.
Bing Crosby
[on Fred Astaire] But when you`re in a picture with Astaire, you`ve got rocks in your head if you do much dancing. He`s so quick-footed and so light that it`s impossible not to look like a hay-digger compared with him.
Bing Crosby
I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
[Fred Astaire] was a perfectionist. At rehearsal when you thought you`d got it perfect he would say, "Go on, Annie, just one more time!" What I wouldn`t give to do it just one more time.
Ann Miller
[on Fred Astaire] I work bigger. Fred`s style is more intimate. I`m very jealous of that when I see him on the small screen. Fred looks so great on TV. I`d love to put on a white tie and tails and look as thin as him and glide as smoothly. But I`m built l...
Gene Kelly
I believe in living each day as it comes, to the best of my ability. When it`s done, I put it away, remembering that there will be a tomorrow to take it`s place. If I have any philosophy, that`s it. To me it`s not a fatalistic attitude.
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Ginger Rogers
It`s nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling records I was never worth anything particularly except as a collector`s item.
Fred Astaire
[on the late Fred Astaire] "No dancer can watch him and not know that all the rest of us should be in a different business. Astaire is remote. It`s as if he were in an incubator, breathing his own air. His perfection is like crystal: you can see through i...
Mikhail Baryshnikov
[on the late Fred Astaire] "No dancer can watch him and not know that all the rest of us should be in a different business. Astaire is remote. It`s as if he were in an incubator, breathing his own air. His perfection is like crystal: you can see through i...
Mikhail Baryshnikov
[on Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly] Fred could never do the lifts Gene did and never wanted to. I`d say they were the two greatest dancing personalities who were ever on the screen. Each has a distinctive style. Each is a joy to work with. But it`s like comp...
Cyd Charisse
There was no model for what I tried to do with dance . . . and the thing Fred Astaire and I used to bitch about was that critics didn`t know how to categorize us. They called us tap dancers because that was considered the American style. But neither of us...
Gene Kelly
[In 1979 interview] I have worked like a dog all my life, honey. Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn`t think you have a brain in your head.
Ann Miller
[On filming "Funny Face", while coping with extreme Paris weather and a grumpy co-star] Here I`ve been waiting for 20 years to dance with Fred Astaire, and what do I get? Mud in my eye!
Audrey Hepburn
I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. But if I put on a white tails and tux like [Fred Astaire], I still looked like a truck driver.
Gene Kelly
On his performance as "Riff" in "West Side Story": "Life is so strange. `West Side Story` was one of the high points of my career. Yet when I first saw it I was really disappointed in how I came off. Since then Fred Astaire has told me how much he admired...
Russ Tamblyn
Carole Lombard, Clark Gable, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire - that was my idea of what it was supposed to be like. I thought, `Well, I can do that even if no one else does.` Who cares? I dress up to show that I am happy and grateful to be there. That`s what ...
Sharon Stone
[on Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly] I can watch Astaire anytime. I don`t think he ever made a wrong move. He was a perfectionist. He would work on a few bars for hours until it was just the way he wanted it. Gene was the same way. They both wanted perfection...
Cyd Charisse
[on Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly] I can watch Astaire anytime. I don`t think he ever made a wrong move. He was a perfectionist. He would work on a few bars for hours until it was just the way he wanted it. Gene was the same way. They both wanted perfection...
Cyd Charisse
I was asked to act when I couldn`t act. I was asked to sing "Funny Face" when I couldn`t sing and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn`t dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn`t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.
Audrey Hepburn
[On her screen partnership with Fred Astaire] "We had fun and it shows. True, we were never bosom buddies off the screen; we were different people with different interests. We were only a couple on film".
Ginger Rogers
When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman`s part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
Jack Nicholson
Life is so strange. `West Side Story` was one of the high points of my career. Yet when I first saw it I was really disappointed in how I came off. Since then Fred Astaire has told me how much he admired my dancing in it. Now I see it very differently.
Russ Tamblyn
[on Ginger Rogers] When Ginger Rogers danced with Fred Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.
Gene Kelly
