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Top 25 Gene Kelly Quotes (2025 Update)

Gene Kelly Quote: “You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams.”

1. “You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams.”

Gene Kelly Quote: “Dignity, always Dignity!”

2. “Dignity, always Dignity!”

Gene Kelly Quote: “I may be rancid butter, but I’m on your side of the bread.”

3. “I may be rancid butter, but I’m on your side of the bread.”

Gene Kelly Quote: “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.”

4. “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 Quote: “I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.”

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

Gene Kelly Quote: “I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.”

6. “I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.”

Gene Kelly Quote: “You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I’ll be very glad to be a song and dance man.”

7. “You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I’ll be very glad to be a song and dance man.”

Gene Kelly Quote: “At 14, I discovered girls. At that time, dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship. Only later did I discover that you dance joy. You dance love. You dance dreams.”

8. “At 14, I discovered girls. At that time, dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship. Only later did I discover that you dance joy. You dance love. You dance dreams.”

Gene Kelly Quote: “When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.”

9. “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 Quote: “If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I’m the Marlon Brando.”

10. “If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I’m the Marlon Brando.”

Gene Kelly Quote: “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.”

11. “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 Quote: “I think dancing is a man’s game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.”

12. “I think dancing is a man’s game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.”

Gene Kelly Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

Gene Kelly Quote: “Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.”

14. “Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.”

Gene Kelly Quote: “I never wanted to be a dancer. It’s true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates.”

15. “I never wanted to be a dancer. It’s true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates.”

Gene Kelly Quote: “There’s nothing revolutionary about Saturday Night Fever. You can see the same kind of movement at your local disco.”

16. “There’s nothing revolutionary about Saturday Night Fever. You can see the same kind of movement at your local disco.”

Gene Kelly Quote: “Any man who looks like a sissy while dancing is just a lousy dancer.”

17. “Any man who looks like a sissy while dancing is just a lousy dancer.”

Gene Kelly Quote: “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.”

18. “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 Quote: “I took it as it came and it happened to be very nice.”

19. “I took it as it came and it happened to be very nice.”

Gene Kelly Quote: “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.”

20. “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 Quote: “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.”

21. “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 Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

Gene Kelly Quote: “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.”

23. “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 Quote: “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.”

24. “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 Quote: “I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls.”

25. “I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls.”

Gene Kelly Quote: “I’d studied dance in Chicago every summer and 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.”

26. “I’d studied dance in Chicago every summer and 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.”

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