Gene Kelly Quotes

You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.

I love dancing just because I've done it my whole life and it's definitely what I want to do. I feel like, I want to train with acting and do movies. Those two are my main priorities. I definitely want to be able to sing and model, too. I definitely love those, too.

On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.

When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s. And just through necessity, going out looking for work, I was starting to sing, and dance, and act, and I never expected to do that, nor to have any success at it at least.

Growing up, the last thing I ever thought I'd do is be an entertainer.

I was never a dancer before 'Shake It Up'.

I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.

I did six Broadway shows, and I noticed there weren't many female comedians. When I went to a dancing audition, there were 1,000 girls. And there were three jobs. So I said I'll just try comedy. And I loved it.

But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don't have that kind of interest or time any more.

I had no intention of being an entertainer.

I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.

If a movie musical came along and the part was right and somebody wanted me to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.

After moving to California, I decided to go back to school and get an education on various aspects of the entertainment industry.

I love going to see musicals. That was one of the major reasons why losing the chance to produce 'La La Land' was so painful.

From day 1, Justin Timberlake has been a huge inspiration for me.

I did a film in Nairobi, Kenya called 'The Last Elephant,' with John Lithgow, Isabella Rosallini, and James Earl Jones. So I was in seventh heaven, alright? About a year later I get a call from my agent and he says they want to see you for this project called Candyman. I thought he was joking so I hung up.

M. Night Shyamalan can draw quite a few people to quite a few things, and having the opportunity to work with him is very cool.

I do believe that there are some films that cannot be made without stars.

While dancing for me was fun, becoming a choreographer was not something I wanted to do.

After being an actor, producing 'One By Two' was a natural progression.

The idea of working in films came after I passed class ten. I was planning to set up a restaurant and manage a business.

I used to run about two miles every day, but now with 'Dancing With the Stars,' the running is over.

Before I became an actor, I was a producer and a visual effects supervisor. Our industry wasn't making the kind of films I was interested in.

In the beginning, all I wanted to do was to be a singer and a dancer. That was my real groove, my real interest. When it came to doing films, my biggest goal was to do a commercial.

I don't know if I'll ever direct, but producing is dipping my toe into my behind-the-scenes world.