#fred

I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career... I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#alfred #alfred hitchcock #am #career #education

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#asked #astaire #cope #dance #face

Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it. ↗

— Freddie Hubbard

#blowing #brother #everybody #fred #get

Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've – you've blown up a toilet or –" "Blown up a toilet? We've never blown up a toilet." "Great idea though, thanks, Mum. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#george-weasley #humor #molly-weasley #toilet #humor

Give her hell from us, Peeves. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#george-weasley #hell #mischief #peeves #umbridge

Harry!" said Fred, elbowing Percy out of the way and bowing deeply. "Simply splendid to see you, old boy-" "Marvelous," said George, pushing Fred aside and seizing Harry's hand in turn. "Absolutely spiffing." Percy scowled. "That's enough, now," said Mrs. Weasley. "Mum!" said Fred as though he'd only just spotted her and seizing her hand too. "How really corking to see you- ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#prison

Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point? ↗

— Kate Beckinsale

#freddie #freddie mercury #given #going #i

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#discipline #fred #fred astaire #hard #hard work

Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#danced #dancer #formal #fred #fred astaire

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceased to be a man. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#slavery #experience