The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

We attend to his later performances as a dramatic actor with respect, but watching the nondancing, nonsinging Astaire is like watching a grounded skylark.

I don't remember anybody ever pointing me out as a dancing prodigy, but I played a not bad second base.

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.

There comes a day when people begin to say, 'Why doesn't that old duffer retire?' I want to get out while they're still saying Astaire is a hell of a dancer.

This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.