Fred Astaire once worked so hard/ he often lost his breath/ and now he taps all other chaps to death - Fred Astaire

Come on, Fred, I'm not your sister, you know.

He is a truly complex fellow, not unlike the Michelangelos and da Vincis of the Renaissance period. He's a supreme artist but he is constantly filled with doubts and self-anger about his work--and that is what makes him so good. He is a perfectionist who is never sure he is attaining perfection.

I don't think that I will plunge the nation into war by stating that Fred Astaire is the greatest tap-dancer in the world.