Gene Kelly Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Chicago, Broadway

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hollywood, Musical, Academy

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dancing, Motion, Picture

• 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

  Topics in College

  Tags in Athlete

• I’ll never starve.

  Gene Kelly

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Starve

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

  Gene Kelly

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Motion, Picture

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dancing, Courtship

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

  Gene Kelly

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dancing, Game

• 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

  Topics in Job, Mother

  Tags in Receptionist

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

  Gene Kelly

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Busy

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

  Gene Kelly

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Hollywood

• 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

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Actress, Dance

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

  Gene Kelly

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Dancing

Gene Kelly (13)

Birth:	23rd August, 1912
Death:	2nd February, 1996
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Choreographer, Dancer, Director, Producer, Singer

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Gene Kelly was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director, producer, and choreographer. Kelly 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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