Fred moved like glass. Physically it was easy to dance with him. It was not as demanding on me. I didn`t need the same vitality and strength.
Cyd Charisse
[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
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
[on her "Angel" (1999) character Fred facing the evil vampire Angelus as played by star David Boreanaz, who ad libbed a lot of his lines:] "I think it`s great; he has so much fun playing that character. It`s a lot of improvisation and taking risks. You ne...
Amy Acker
During Double Indemnity (1944), Fred MacMurray would go to rushes. I remember asking Fred, `How was I?` `I don`t know about you, but I was wonderful!` Such a true remark. Actors only look at themselves.
Barbara Stanwyck
During Double Indemnity (1944), Fred MacMurray would go to rushes. I remember asking Fred, `How was I?` `I don`t know about you, but I was wonderful!` Such a true remark. Actors only look at themselves.
Barbara Stanwyck
[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 her "Angel" (1999) character Fred:] "Looking back at my character, I`ve gotten to do about 12 different parts because I started out crazy, in a potato sack, in a demon dimension. Now I`m in charge of this multimillion-dollar science lab. The journey b...
Amy Acker
[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
[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
[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.
[on Fred Astair...
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
[interview with Fred Topel, 6/28/07] I get the worst of both worlds. I look like a geeky hacker, but I don`t know anything about computers.
Justin Long
[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
[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
I do not ever want to be a huge star. Do you think I want a success? I refused Bonnie and Clyde (1967) because I was nursing at the time but also because deep down I knew that it was going to be a huge success. The same was true of Bob and Carol and Fred ...
Tuesday Weld
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
[on his good friend and My Cousin Vinny (1992) co-star, the late Fred Gwynne] "It takes somebody who`s very serious to pull off a character like `Herman Munster.` It`s not simple to play the goof. Fred was not Herman. He was an intelligent, quiet gentlema...
Joe Pesci
[on his good friend and My Cousin Vinny (1992) co-star, the late Fred Gwynne] "It takes somebody who`s very serious to pull off a character like `Herman Munster.` It`s not simple to play the goof. Fred was not Herman. He was an intelligent, quiet gentlema...
Joe Pesci
[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
Fred moved like glass. Physically it was easy to dance with him. It was not as demanding on me. I didn`t need the same vitality and strength.
Cyd Charisse
