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

~Gene Kelly

Topics: Almost Day Find Impossible More One Day One Day At A Time Relax Still Than Time

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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

Topics: Academy Awards Comedy Consideration Deserving Drama Dramas Form Hollywood Idea Less More Musicals Reasoning Same Sort Strange Than Worthy

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

~Gene Kelly

Topics: Because Dancing Girl Got Knew Meet One Way Started Way

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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

Topics: Arm Around Could Courtship Dancing Discovered Girl Only Put Time Way You Your

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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

Topics: Astaire Danced Ginger Looked Man Movies Only Only Time Rogers Time Woman You

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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.

~Gene Kelly

Topics: Always Athlete Came College Dancer Did Gymnast Just Naturally Through Want Way Work

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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

Topics: Danced Dancing Look Motion Motion Picture Picture Screen Stage Things Three-Dimensional Way

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

~Gene Kelly

Topics: Adapt Dance Medium Motion Motion Picture New New Things Picture Things Wanted

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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

Topics: Dancing Did Gotten Had Idea Job Mother Open Our Own School Should

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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

Topics: About Broadway Chicago Dance End Every Fact First Getting Got In Fact Job Studied Summer Taught Week Well-Rounded Winter Worried

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: August 23rd, 1912

Died: February 2nd, 1996

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