I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get.

It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.

I'm not a good choreographer: I can't remember what I put down.

I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get.

That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.

You see, as far as the man's personality goes, there's no one who can touch Fred Astaire. He's unique.