Fred Astaire Quotes

I really actually enjoy auditioning.

I want to do theater, TV, movies.

I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.

I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.

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.

I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.

I have been working professionally in the entertainment industry since I was six.

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.

Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

It's a great life being an actor, and I wouldn't change it for anything.

There's no business like show business.

My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.

I'm a film doll. But I'm enjoying it. So I'm gonna keep doing it.

I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.

There's no people like show people.

My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job.

When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!

In a work capacity I'm only interested in acting and producing.

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

Well, I'll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I'll go to LA and try out for films there.

I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.

I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

I want to do movies, television and theater. Whatever comes along.