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I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.
Gene Kelly Quotes: I still find it almost
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 Quotes: There is a strange sort
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 Quotes: She's one of those third
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 Quotes: I didn't want to move
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 Quotes: The finest all-around performer we
I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.
Gene Kelly Quotes: I wanted to do new
If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.
Gene Kelly Quotes: If Fred Astaire is the
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 Quotes: When Ginger Rogers danced with
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 Quotes: Kids talk to me and
Come on with the rain / I've a smile on my face.
Gene Kelly Quotes: Come on with the rain
I never wanted to be a dancer. It's true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Gene Kelly Quotes: I never wanted to be
Any man who looks like a sissy while dancing is just a lousy dancer.
Gene Kelly Quotes: Any man who looks like
Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.
Gene Kelly Quotes: Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy,
I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox.
Gene Kelly Quotes: I arrived in Hollywood twenty
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 Quotes: I didn't want to be
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 Quotes: The way I look at
I may be rancid butter, but I'm on your side of the bread.
Gene Kelly Quotes: I may be rancid butter,
At 14 I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship.
Gene Kelly Quotes: At 14 I discovered girls.
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 Quotes: I wanted to invent some
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