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He's a genius...a classical dancer like I never saw in my life.

— Fred Astaire

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The history of dance on film begins with Astaire.

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

P.G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster in Joy in the Morning (1947)

Either the camera will dance, or I will.

I once said that fifty years from now, the only one of today's dancers who will be remembered is Fred Astaire.

I have no desire to prove anything by it. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

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