I've worked with Jack Warner and Jimmy Stewart - and Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and Johnny Depp twice. I've had dinners with Fred Astaire and Cary Grant.
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.
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.
I want to do with skates what Fred Astaire is doing with dancing.
As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire.
I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.
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?
As Gloria Steinem said about Ginger Rogers: She was doing everything Fred Astaire was doing, just doing it backwards in high heels. Well, Southern women are doing and enduring what other women have to do and endure, but (at least until recently) they had to do it in heels and hats and white gloves and makeup and a sweet smile, with maybe a glass of bourbon and a cigarette to get them through the magnolia part of being a steel magnolia.
I am the Fred Astaire of karate.
I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire.
She had died peacefully, in her sleep, after an evening of listening to all of her favorite Fred Astaire songs, one crackling record after another. Once the last chord of the last piece had died out, she had stood up and opened the French doors to the garden outside, perhaps waiting to breathe in the honeysuckle one more time.
From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
Fred Astaire is the Carioca, the Continental, the very Piccolino of romance.
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.
Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.
[Hugh Jackman is] an Adamantium-laced Fred Astaire.
Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.
He [Astaire] was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.
I'm really influenced by Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.
I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire influenced me, more than anything, to be in 'show business.