Gene Kelly Quotes

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

  Gene Kelly

  Dream, Joy, Dance Love

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• 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 I'll be very glad to be a song and dance man.

  Gene Kelly

  Dream, Running, Song

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• 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.

  Gene Kelly

  Moving, Men, Jeans

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

  Gene Kelly

  Girl, Dancing, Way

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

  Gene Kelly

  Men, Dancing, Dancer

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• In the 1930s there was this tendency in Hollywood to portray everyone as rich. Even if they were doing a poor man's dance, they were all so nicely clothed, gowned, coiffured. That's why I decided to wear white socks, loafers, T-shirts, and blue jeans. I had a sociopolitical context in front of me: I was a child of the Depression who danced in a way that would represent the common man.

  Gene Kelly

  Children, Men, Blue

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The way I look at a musical, you are commenting on the human condition no matter what you do. A musical may be light and frivolous, but by its very nature, it makes some kind of social comment.

  Gene Kelly

  Light, Musical, Looks

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• If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.

  Gene Kelly

  Grants, Brando, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Gene Kelly

  Rain, Faces, Smile On My Face

  Song: Singin' In The Rain

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• Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.

  Gene Kelly

  Aristocracy, Proletariat

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never wanted to be a dancer. It's true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

  Gene Kelly

  Dancer, Pirate, Pittsburgh

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I took it as it came and it happened to be very nice.

  Gene Kelly

  Nice, Very Nice, Happened

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At 14 I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship. Only later did I discover that you dance joy. You dance love. You dance dreams.

  Gene Kelly

  Girl, Dream, Love You

  "Gene Kelly Dies; Legendary Dancer Was 83" by Scott Harris, articles.latimes.com. February 03, 1996.

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• In film, a dancer should always be shot from head to toe, because that way you can see the whole body and that is the art of dancing. Nowadays they shoot the nose. Left nostril. Right nostril. Hand. Foot. Bust. Derrière. The film prevents you from determining who is a good dancer and who is not.

  Gene Kelly

  Art, Hands, Feet

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Gene Kelly

  Stars, Acceptance, Accepting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Gene Kelly

  One Day At A Time, Relax, Impossible

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• Like an athlete, [dance] is an everyday job. You have to stay in shape - unless you just want to loaf through a couple of hoofing routines. But that just didn't satisfy me.

  Gene Kelly

  Jobs, Couple, Athlete

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Motivational, Dance, Men

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

  Gene Kelly

  Motion Pictures, Mediums, Wanted

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• I miss the romance. I keep saying this over and over again, but dance follows music. And if the accent today is percussion and rhythm and loudness, then that is the way the dance numbers will be. But it is pretty hard on romance with seven guitars, three drums, and no melody instruments in the band.

  Gene Kelly

  Guitar, Numbers, Romance

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never played a rich man, I never played a prince. And to play a sailor or longshoreman you had to make your dance more eclectic and varied, but still keep it indigenous to your nationality, upbringing, and background.

  Gene Kelly

  Men, Play, Sailor

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At the time the quickest way to establish yourself as an American was to throw a little bit of tap into your dance - even when it wasn't called for. But what also helped me was the fact that I was dancing in roles that I had played.

  Gene Kelly

  Dancing, Roles, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The finest all-around performer we ever had in America was Judy Garland. There was no limit to her talent. She was the quickest, brightest person I ever worked with.

  Gene Kelly

  America, Limits, Talent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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 didn't catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me.

  Gene Kelly

  Dance, New York, Good Man

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• 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.

  Gene Kelly

  Dancing, Needs, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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