Gene Kelly

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

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

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

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

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 wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium. ”

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. ”