4 Fred Astaire Quotes on Competition

Fred Astaire quotes on competition

15. What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It's too hard to face.

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46. As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire

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

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73. But when you're in a picture with Astaire, you've got rocks in your head if you do much dancing. He's so quick-footed and so light that it's impossible not to look like a hay-digger compared with him.