Gene Kelly Messages

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

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

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

I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.