Explore Quotes by Gene Kelly

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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