I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls.
– 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
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
When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.