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Dance Quotes by 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…
- 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.
- 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'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.…
- You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams.
- I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.
- 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;…
- I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and…
- When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.
More Dance Quotes
- The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's… — Fred Astaire
- Disco is just jitterbug. — Fred Astaire
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood
- To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen
- Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. — George Balanchine
- The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine
- Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. — Dave Barry
- I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- The more injuries you get, the smarter you get. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. — Mikhail Baryshnikov