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• It fit into my scheme of things for many reasons. At the time it was true that male dancers were looked down upon, and it was true that a lot of the male dancers were effeminate. But what I was really trying to do was develop something that would be American.

  Gene Kelly

  Dancer, Trying, Males

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• She's one of those third year girls who gripe my liver... You know, American college kids. They come over here to take their third year and lap up a little culture... They're officious and dull. They're always making profound observations they've overheard.

  Gene Kelly

  Girl, Kids, College

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• 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

  Drama, Awards, Ideas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.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 only thing is that ordinarily when I do dance with [women] they think I am suddenly going to throw them over a table or twist them all around. All I want to do is one-two, one-two-three - a simple fox trot. But they're shaking with anticipation at the thought that I'm about to whip them around and then toss them on the roof.

  Gene Kelly

  Simple, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I may be rancid butter, but I'm on your side of the bread.

  Gene Kelly

  Your Side, May, Bread

  "Fictional character: E. K. Hornbeck". "Inherit the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• 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

  Two, Dancing, Three

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• When I would create a dance, I wouldn't have the luxury that ballet people do when they take a piece of music and impose a dance upon it. What we did in motion pictures was have a song and within that song try to elaborate. My usual method was to do what a writer does: get a plot.

  Gene Kelly

  Song, Luxury, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The only time I feel pressured is when some woman's husband comes over and says, "Will you go ask my wife to dance? She's a great dancer and would just love to dance with you."Suddenly there's a crowd of people standing around us and they expect that they're about to see Fred and Ginger. Here the woman and I have just met, and these people think that it's showtime. That is the only time I think it is really embarrassing.

  Gene Kelly

  Husband, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Mentally, I write myself a little story. Of course, sometimes you have a song that says, "Do that." My best example is Singin' in the Rain. Arthur Freed had insisted that the song should be in the picture, but he was very anxious about it.

  Gene Kelly

  Song, Rain, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. But if I put on a white tails and tux like Fred Astaire, I still looked like a truck driver.

  Gene Kelly

  Strong, White, Pounds

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• Kids talk to me and say they want to do musicals again because they've studied the tapes of the old films. We didn't have that. We thought once we had made it, even on film, it was gone except for the archives.

  Gene Kelly

  Kids, Archives, Tape

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Dance, Mother, Jobs

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• I saw Mikhail Baryshnikov do Twyla Tharp's Sinatra Suite on PBS. I have no numbers to prove it, but I bet that kids who saw that loved it. I think you will see younger dancers, who certainly have the artistic sense and capabilities, start going back to romantic numbers.

  Gene Kelly

  Kids, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For a ridiculous analogy, let's take Purple Rain. If you were to put Purple Rain and The Sound of Music on the desk of a producer, he or she would know that the majority of moviegoers would rather listen to Prince. Since they are in the business of making money, no one can blame them. But if it ever came to the decision of making a film like that I'd say, "No." They are very easy films to make, though. In Purple Rain there is nothing complex about the way that they dance. Or sing. It would be a bit boring for an adult to make that film. It just wouldn't test their métier.

  Gene Kelly

  Rain, Purple, Decision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Athlete, College, Dancer

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• I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer and 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

  Motivational, Dance, Summer

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• I had been asked to open a nightclub in Atlantic City. They offered me a ridiculous amount of money. They literally overpaid me. So I did one show a night. Then they asked me back by popular demand. So I went back. Then I said, "To hell with this." I was only doing it for the money, and I was doing easy routines. It's just too much work to get up every day and practice.

  Gene Kelly

  Night, Practice, Cities

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• America now has more and better dancers than they have ever had in the history of the country, but that won't account for the public wants to see.

  Gene Kelly

  Country, America, Dancer

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is a certain amount of pornography that exists throughout Purple Rain, but the appeal is obvious. You can really pick that picture apart and see where "A" fits into "B" and so on. It was very wisely done.

  Gene Kelly

  Rain, Purple, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Gene Kelly

  Strong, Twenties, Hollywood

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• There's nothing revolutionary about Saturday Night Fever . You can see the same kind of movement at your local disco.

  Gene Kelly

  Night, Fever, Movement

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• First of all, break-dancing has been done for years, though not all of it put together the way it is now. But, actually, the distinctions have been blurring since the 1950s.

  Gene Kelly

  Years, Dancing, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When they do let them sustain on screen from head to toe, though, then you know they must think the person is a good dancer.

  Gene Kelly

  Thinking, Dancer, Toes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I played a tough kid on the street I couldn't go out there and get into fifth position. I had to dance like a tough kid on the street.

  Gene Kelly

  Kids, Tough, Fifth

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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