Originál: (en) It wasn't a battle of dancers, but our different styles were purposely made apparent. My style is strong, wide open; Fred's is intimate, cool, easy. He can give an audience pleasure just by walking across a dance floor.
Zdroj: [Gene Kelly, Dancer of Vigor and Grace, Dies, nytimes.com, 1996/02/03, 2013/03/25, http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0823.html]
Gene Kelly citáty a výroky
Gene Kelly: Citáty anglicky
Quoted in "Gene Kelly's Musical Memories"
Speaking on March 8, 1985 at the American Film Institute; as quoted in "Hollywood Honors Man Who `Danced Joy'" by Paul Rosenfield, in Los Angeles Times (March 9, 1985)
“Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.”
Quoted in Vaudeville Old and New, Frank Cullen, Florence Hackman, Donald McNeilly (2004) http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XFnfnKg6BcAC&pg=PA623&lpg=PA623&dq=%22Fred+Astaire+represented+the+aristocracy,+I+represented+the+proletariat.%22&source=bl&ots=5uoGqPw6x4&sig=YkykWG5pcdAalk3jOpgoWqVYxhQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Znv_Tqr4CYqy8QPJxfydAg&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22Fred%20Astaire%20represented%20the%20aristocracy%2C%20I%20represented%20the%20proletariat.%22&f=false
Quoted in "Gene Kelly's Musical Memories" by Rex Reed, in The Chicago Tribune (November 29, 1970)