Film Quotes by Fred Astaire
86 quotes
Year: 1968
Director:
Francis Ford Coppola
Director:
Francis Ford Coppola
Finian McLonergan:
Don't be superstitious, it's bad luck.
--
Fred Astaire
(as Finian McLonergan)
in
Finian's Rainbow
(1968)
Year: 1968
Director:
Francis Ford Coppola
Director:
Francis Ford Coppola
Finian McLonergan:
Now that you're half mortal, you're indecent.
--
Fred Astaire
(as Finian McLonergan)
in
Finian's Rainbow
(1968)
Year: 1962
Director:
Richard Quine
Director:
Richard Quine
Franklyn Ambruster:
You're at a level where you can only afford one mistake. The higher up you go, the more mistakes you're allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
--
Fred Astaire
in
The Notorious Landlady
(1962)
Year: 1940
Director:
Norman Taurog
Director:
Norman Taurog
Johnny Brett:
[singing] So, move Grant's Tomb to Union Square / and put Brooklyn anywhere / but please, please / I'm down on my knees / don't monkey with Broadway!
--
Fred Astaire
(as Johnny Brett)
in
Broadway Melody of 1940
(1940)
Year: 1940
Director:
Norman Taurog
Director:
Norman Taurog
Johnny Brett:
Nice black coffee for that nice black hangover.
--
Fred Astaire
(as Johnny Brett)
in
Broadway Melody of 1940
(1940)
Year: 1945
Director:
Vincente Minnelli
Director:
Vincente Minnelli
Johnny Parkson Riggs:
This isn't a country. It's a cemetery with a train running through it.
--
Fred Astaire
(as Johnny Parkson Riggs)
in
Yolanda and the Thief
(1945)
Year: 1959
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Julian Osborne:
I shouldn't drink, you know. I inevitably say something brilliant.
--
Fred Astaire
(as Julian Osborne)
in
On the Beach
(1959)
Year: 1959
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Julian Osborne:
The trouble with you is you want a simple answer. There isn't any. The war started when people accepted the idiotic principle that peace could be maintained - - by arranging to defend themselves with weapons they couldn't possibly use - - without committing suicide. Everybody had an atomic bomb, and counter-bombs, and counter-counter bombs. The devices outgrew us; we couldn't control them. I know, I helped build them. Somewhere, some poor bloke probably looked at a radar screen and thought he saw something. He knew that if he hesitated for a second that his own country would be wiped off the map. So he pushed a button and the world went crazy.
--
Fred Astaire
(as Julian Osborne)
in
On the Beach
(1959)
Year: 1959
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Julian Osborne:
The war started when people accepted the idiotic principle that peace could be maintained by arranging to defend themselves with weapons they couldn't possibly use without committing suicide.
--
Fred Astaire
(as Julian Osborne)
in
On the Beach
(1959)
Year: 1959
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Julian Osborne:
There was a choice. It was build the bombs, and use them - or risk the United States, the Soviet Union, and the rest of us, would find some way... to go on living.
Morgan: [scoffs] That's wishful thinking if ever I heard it.
Julian Osborne: [softly] I'm not against wishful thinking. Not now.
Morgan: [scoffs] That's wishful thinking if ever I heard it.
Julian Osborne: [softly] I'm not against wishful thinking. Not now.
--
Fred Astaire
(as Julian Osborne)
in
On the Beach
(1959)