Fred Astaire Quotes

I did a lot of things when I first started out. In order to be in show business, I juggled, I did magic tricks, cards tricks and I played the banjo.

I mean these people who work on Broadway, in my opinion, are the most gifted of everyone. I mean they really know how to dance. They really know how to act. They really know how to sing. They know how to perform.

I always say the most important thing is the ability to act, then sing, then dance - in that order.

I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.

There are a lot of people who look great but can't sing.

I think someone like Carmen Electra would be great in 'Peepshow.' Really, though, I think anyone who can sing and dance would be great.

I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

I've never been someone who is cast for having a lovely figure but for whatever qualities I could possibly bring to a role, so I'm still castable.

I've always loved to sing and dance, but the caliber of my talent in those areas obviously is not nearing Patti LuPone or Sutton Foster.

I'd like to be a song and dance man.

I've always been into theater and movies. When I was in school, I did a monologue for my talent show. I would go to the local theater. I was always in dance. I was always performing. That was always my thing.

It's always been great to be onstage. It's really effortless up there. It's not a lot of work.

I have absolutely no dance background at all. Nor a singing background. People, for some reason, think I can. And I don't know why that is. I sort intoned in Moulin Rouge, through facial hair and buck-teeth, but I don't really call it singing.

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

I knew I wanted to be a performer really early on, like around 8 years old. I did tons of acting and loved being in front of people.

I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back.

I'm not much of a song-and-dance man.

I'd like to continue to play until I drop dead on stage or something.

I can't sing worth a lick, so I don't know if I would be allowed in the ["The Mickey Mouse Club"].

If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.

Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.

I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.

That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.

My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.

I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided to try to make it as a business profession. All this other stuff has just been icing.