Gene Kelly Quotes

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• 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…
• I may be rancid butter, but I'm on your side of the bread.
• I didn't want to move or act like a rich man. I wanted to dance in a pair of jeans. I wanted to dance like…
• If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.
• I never wanted to be a dancer. It's true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
• Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.
• 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…
• The finest all-around performer we ever had in America was Judy Garland. There was no limit to her talent. She was the quickest, brightest person…
• Kids talk to me and say they want to do musicals again because they've studied the tapes of the old films. We didn't have that.…
• At 14, I discovered girls. At that time, dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship. Only…
• I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. But if I put on a white tails and tux like Fred…
• 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,…
• The way I look at a musical, you are commenting on the human condition no matter what you do. A musical may be light and…
• I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer and taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway.…
• I took it as it came and it happened to be very nice.
• She's one of those third year girls who gripe my liver... You know, American college kids. They come over here to take their third year…
• You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams.
• I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.
• There's nothing revolutionary about Saturday Night Fever . You can see the same kind of movement at your local disco.
• Any man who looks like a sissy while dancing is just a lousy dancer.

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