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 n…

- Gene Kelly

Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.

- Gene Kelly

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 …

- Gene Kelly

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

- Gene Kelly

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

- Gene Kelly

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

- Gene Kelly

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

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 cl…

- Gene Kelly

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

- Gene Kelly