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13 quotes by Gene Kelly

Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) 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. Best known today for his performances in films such as An American in Paris (1951) and Singin' in the Rain (1952), he was a dominant force in musical films until they fell out...
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I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.

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

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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... →

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

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I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls.

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

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

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I'll never starve.

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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.... →

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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... →

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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.

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

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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... →

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