Gene Kelly

The only thing is that ordinarily when I do dance with [women] they think I am suddenly going to throw them over…

— Gene Kelly

In fact, I wasn't going to dance in Xanadu, but several journalists told me that Olivia Newton-John kept saying how sad she…

— Gene Kelly

I miss the romance. I keep saying this over and over again, but dance follows music. And if the accent today is…

— Gene Kelly

I didn't want to move or act like a rich man. I wanted to dance in a pair of jeans. I wanted…

— 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…

— Gene Kelly

If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.

— Gene Kelly

It fit into my scheme of things for many reasons. At the time it was true that male dancers were looked down…

— Gene Kelly

I don't understand the whole concept of doubles. They used to do that in the early sound films in Hollywood, but I…

— Gene Kelly

I'll never starve.

— Gene Kelly

When I would create a dance, I wouldn't have the luxury that ballet people do when they take a piece of music…

— Gene Kelly

You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams.

— Gene Kelly

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

— Gene Kelly

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

— Gene Kelly

You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping…

— Gene Kelly

Kids talk to me and say they want to do musicals again because they've studied the tapes of the old films. We…

— Gene Kelly

If I played a tough kid on the street I couldn't go out there and get into fifth position. I had to…

— Gene Kelly

In the 1930s there was this tendency in Hollywood to portray everyone as rich. Even if they were doing a poor man's…

— Gene Kelly

America now has more and better dancers than they have ever had in the history of the country, but that won't account…

— Gene Kelly

I may be rancid butter, but I'm on your side of the bread.

— Gene Kelly

Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.

— Gene Kelly

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

— Gene Kelly

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

— 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…

— Gene Kelly

I think Twyla [Tharp] has a lot to say. The great thing about Twyla is that she continues to explore.

— Gene Kelly

My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our…

— Gene Kelly