Gene Kelly

"I'd rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained."

"You've got to keep dancing."

"I like intelligent people. When you go out it should be with a person who's going to add to the experience, to feed your ideas."

"Life is not a spectator sport."

"Singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain."

"The highest level of technique is that which is not noticed at all."

"Don't just do what everyone else does."

"I think all of us have had the experience of being disappointed by someone we trusted."

"Gotta dance!"

"You must have discipline and commitment."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that the very existence of you is an act of rebellion."

"I think one of the fundamental things about being American is coming here and starting new."

"Work is not something you have to do, it's something you get to do."

"Do it big, do it right, and do it with style."

"I want to be like the wind - invisible, but leaving traces of my presence."

"Forget class distinctions in friendship."

"Every day you don't practice is a day you get worse."

"An actor is not just a face. He must be a man of culture."

"Dancing is communication, and through it we share the experience of our lives."

"If there's anything I hate worse than bad acting, it's bad acting by good actors."

"You make your own luck."

"I never consider the possessions I have as being mine; they are just things around me."

"The biggest thing I was afraid of was that I would fail."

"I'd rather do a good musical than a bad play."

"I have no desire to be made a star. It means too much trouble."

"You can't put your feet on the ground until you can put your heart in the sky."

"I believe that the audience is smart."

"The simplest things are often the best things."

"I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos."

"Time is precious, don't waste it."