#astaire

I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#ballet #because #chaplin #everything #films

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person. ↗

— Connie Willis

#artist #astaire #because #effortless #fred

I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#being #between #charmed #either #entire

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#astaire #been #business #dancer #fred

I love the old Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies; they're so beautiful to look at. It's such a shame we don't make them anymore. Although, I don't know how you could make tap dancing current and topical. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#anymore #astaire #beautiful #could #current

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

#beautiful #born #dancing #dressed #era

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. ↗

— Matthew Bourne

#astaire #choreography #dance #doing #flashy

I was spawned by some pretty good people in this business - Mr. Astaire, Mr. Tracy. They stopped and took their time to talk to people. ↗

— Robert Wagner

#business #good #good people #i #mr

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

#asked #astaire #cope #dance #face

Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#astaire #extraordinarily #him #his #look