Quotes from Gene Kelly

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; we did, and it prospered.

Come on with the rain / I've a smile on my face.

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

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

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

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

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.

I love rhythmic dancing - I'm not derogating it at all. It's just that sometimes you want to whisper, "I adore you." And for that you need strings and woodwinds.

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

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.

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 the man in the streets.

Any man who looks like a sissy while dancing is just a lousy dancer.

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

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

I'll never starve.

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.

The future of dance will always be tied up with the public's acceptance of the star. If they accept the star, then they'll accept the dance.