Dance Quote by Gene Kelly

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

— 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 was that…

— Gene Kelly

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

— 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 to dance…

— 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 a motion…

— 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 upon, and…

— 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 thought we…

— 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 and impose…

— 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 woman.

— Gene Kelly