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
I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end 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
I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.
Gene Kelly
I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox.
Gene Kelly
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.