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Fred Astaire Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: May 10, 1899 - June 22, 1987

Topics

Style Mistakes Enough You Go Top

If you've got a shot at having some 30 million people give you thumbs up or thumbs down every week, you take it.

People Week You Down Up Take

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

Learning You Want Out Pretty May

I still enjoy acting. I love the moment in front of the camera, but it's all the other moments that I don't enjoy. The 'business' aspect of it, the gossip.

Love Business Moment Camera Moments

I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives.

People Speak Write Call Surgery

I always do a lot of work around characters to make them real people because, oftentimes, they really are a sliver of a person. Even with truly wonderful writers, women characters are there to emote, and they're often incredibly chaste or worthy. Or they're a 'different type of woman', which is the worst.

Andrea Riseborough

Work Women Woman People Person Real

You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way... to get in the way.

Brave You Find Bold Way Get

When I started out as an actor I knew very little, which was probably a good thing. I was totally open. You don't judge yourself, you do it.

Good Yourself Judge You Actor Open

My mom used to be a model.

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

You Map Over Existential Here

When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state, which is coming to include the whole population in its surveillance. This is our reward for accepting the restraints on the way we live now.

Live World You Reward Way Try

To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.

Best Day Think Dove Still Part

Bill Bennett really became an idol for me. I listened to him every morning from 6 to 9 for, oh, years.

Morning Me Him Years Idol Oh

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