Fred Quotes

I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act. (Burt Reynolds)
Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat. View quote
Gene Kelly
The only thing that frightens me a little is when I'm called Kevin rather than Fred, but that's how people have known me for so many years. So, I can't really blame them. View quote
Fred Savage
I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share. View quote
Roone Arledge
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. View quote
Jack Nicholson
Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 - that was my "summer camp." How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire when I was 19? View quote
Rita Hayworth
The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast choreography. View quote
Pauline Kael
I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world. View quote
Sharon Stone
Dreams like a podcast, Downloading truth in my ears. They tell me cool stuff." "Apollo?" I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad. He put his finger to his lips. "I'm incognito. Call me Fred." "A god named Fred? View quote
Rick Riordan
Apollo?” I guessed... He put a finger to his lips. "I'm incognito. Call me Fred.” A god named Fred? View quote
Rick Riordan
The whole problem, I suppose, is that any time some piece of communication strikes poor Fred, or any of the remaining Beasts, for that matter, as possibly meaningful-or is it meaningless? It's been explained to me a dozen times and I still can't get it right-anyway, his religious convictions say he has to either stop it or-barring that-refuse to be a party to it. (Samuel R. Delany)
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. View quote
Catherine Zeta-Jones
I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions. View quote
Barry McGuire
My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire. View quote
Deana Carter
From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work. View quote
Dirk Benedict
Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it. View quote
Freddie Hubbard
I had heard Ornette a couple of times, but I didn't really know where he was coming from until we started the record and it was beautiful, Fred. It opened up my mind. View quote
Freddie Hubbard
The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates. View quote
George Jackson
I felt Michael Jackson was inspired a little bit more from the elegance of a Fred Astaire. Michael loved Sammy Davis, Jr. and James Brown and Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. But he wasn't any of those people. To be inspired is one thing, but he made it all his own. View quote
Kenny Ortega
Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls. View quote
Leslie Caron
I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic. (Lorna Luft)
What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen. View quote
Stanley Donen
I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire. View quote
Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire is the best singer of songs the movie world ever knew. His phrasing has individual sophistication that is utterly charming. Presumably the runner-up would be Bing Crosby, a wonderful fellow, though he doesn't have the unstressed elegance of Astaire. View quote
Fred Astaire
Of all the actors and actresses I've ever worked with, the hardest worker is Fred Astaire. He behaved like he was a young man whose whole destiny depended on being successful in his first film. He rehearses between takes, after takes - there's no limit to his professionalism. View quote
Fred Astaire