Quotes by Gene Kelly

“MGM didnt know what they had with Cyd, did they?”

“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 Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didnt catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me.”

“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.”

“Id studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasnt worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.”

“On the one hand there is definitely rage and anger for the drunken driver of the car mixed with overwhelming sadness for the survivors.”

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 of couches or running through a rainstorm, then Ill be very glad to be a song and dance man.

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