Gene Kelly Quotes

"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

"MGM didn't know what they had with Cyd, did they?"
-Gene Kelly

"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."
-Gene Kelly

"On the one hand there is definitely rage and anger for the drunken driver of the car mixed with overwhelming sadness for the survivors."
-Gene Kelly

"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