Tony Hunter: Oh, I'm afraid I've been very rude, I haven't told you how wonderful you were tonight.
Gabrielle Gerard: Oh, thank you, I'm a great admirer of your work.
Tony Hunter: I didn't think you'd even heard of me.
Gabrielle Gerard: Heard of you? I used to see all your pictures when I was a little girl. And I'm still a fan, I recently went to see a revival of them at the museum...
Tony Hunter: [offended] Museum? 'Step right this way, ladies and gentlemen, Egyptian mummies, extinct reptiles, and Tony Hunter, the grand old man of the dance!"
Gabrielle Gerard: I didn't mean...
Tony Hunter: Young lady, I'll have you know I can still thread a needle without my eyeglasses and still occasionally do a soft-shoe shuffle! Nothing balletic of course...
Gabrielle Gerard: You're not a ballet devotee, are you?
Tony Hunter: Oh, yes! I saw all the greats - Pavlova, Carsanova, you don't see dancing like that nowadays. Oh, I'm terribly sorry...
Gabrielle Gerard: Oh, that's all right! I wouldn't expect you to class me with Pavlova. In fact I doubt even she'd be good enough for you. You'd probably insist on an audition first!
Tony Hunter: Darn right, I'd audition my own grandmother.
Gabrielle Gerard: Then why don't you audition mine? She'd be just about right for you! Oh, I'm sorry...
Tony Hunter: Oh, no you're not.
Gabrielle Gerard: No I'm not!
Tony Hunter: Neither am I!


--Fred Astaire (as Tony Hunter) in The Band Wagon

Tony Hunter: She was bad. She was dangerous. I wouldn't trust her any farther than I could throw her. But... she was my kind of woman.


--Fred Astaire (as Tony Hunter) in The Band Wagon

Tony Hunter: She was scared. Scared as a turkey in November.


--Fred Astaire (as Tony Hunter) in The Band Wagon

Tony Hunter: The city was asleep. The joints were closed. The rats and hoods and killers were in their holes.


--Fred Astaire (as Tony Hunter) in The Band Wagon

Danny Reed: Happy New Year!
Ted Hanover: Oh, don't do that.


--Fred Astaire (as Ted Hanover) in Holiday Inn

Lila Dixon: [about Jim] He gets a look.
Ted Hanover: He always has that look! It doesn't mean anything emotionally. It has something to do with his... liver.


--Fred Astaire (as Ted Hanover) in Holiday Inn

Lila Dixon: [to Ted] I love you... and Jim.
Ted Hanover: Well, I love Jim too... but let's not get too chummy.


--Fred Astaire (as Ted Hanover) in Holiday Inn

Gabrielle Gerard: That's an early Degas, isn't it?
[examines painting]
Gabrielle Gerard: 1877...
Tony Hunter: [playing up their age difference] Yeah, I swiped it from his desk in school. Was he sore...


--Fred Astaire (as Tony Hunter) in The Band Wagon

Ninotchka Yoschenko: In Russia when somebody wants someone they say, "You, come here."
Steve Canfield: Oh, you mad romantic Russians!


--Fred Astaire (as Steve Canfield) in Silk Stockings

Ellen Miller: [in a fake Russian accent] Vas good?
Danny O'Neill: Vas per-fect.


--Fred Astaire (as ) in Second Chorus