Quotes by Gene Kelly

About Gene Kelly:

Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director, producer and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks, and the likeable characters that he played on screen.
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I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls.

Gene Kelly

My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.

Gene Kelly

I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.

Gene Kelly

I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.

Gene Kelly

Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional.

Gene Kelly

I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.

Gene Kelly

I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox.

Gene Kelly

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy.

Gene Kelly

You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I'll be very glad to be a song and dance man.

Gene Kelly

At 14 I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship.

Gene Kelly

I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.

Gene Kelly

When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.

Gene Kelly

I didn't want to be a dancer. I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.

Gene Kelly

Author Bio

  • NameGene Kelly
  • Descriptiondancer, actor, singer, director, producer, and choreographer
  • BornAugust 23, 1912
  • DiedFebruary 2, 1996
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Actor; Singer; Film Director; Actor; Choreographer; Dancer
  • AwardsNational Medal Of Arts; Primetime Emmy Award