Gene Kelly Quotes

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

Time, Find, Impossible

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

Time, Girl, Put

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

Strong, Hollywood, Arrived

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

Work, Through, College

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

Started, Knew, Meet

I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.
Gene Kelly

Woman, Game, Dancing

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

Dance, Wanted, Picture

I'll never starve.
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

Time, Movies, Woman

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

End, Job, Dance

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

Mother, School, Job

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

Strange, Same, Idea

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

Picture, Stage, Dancing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: August 23, 1912

Died: February 2, 1996

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