Bip is the romantic and burlesque hero for our time. Bip is a modern-day Don Quixote. — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
I love burlesque. I'm a decent aerialist. I think I set myself apart visually. — Violet Chachki Copy Share Image
Objectivity is almost a choice you make. As a burlesque performer, I didn't choose to be objectified. — Esme Bianco Copy Share Image
Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Burlesque dancing didn't solve all my post-divorce problems, but what it did do was force me to court myself for a little… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
It's not what you do. It's the way you do it-stripping, or writing, or talking . . . or just breathing. Do… — Gypsy Rose Lee Copy Share Image
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure. — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
There is nudity, of course striptease is an essential component of burlesque but it's much more complex and intelligent than a display… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market, trading floor, theatre and burlesque... a lot of people are going to be making a… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
If you ever saw All That Jazz [1979], Bob Fosse was kind of raised dancing in strip joints and the whole era… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
King René of Anjou [(1409-80)]was a strange compound of amiable, great and trifling qualities. He was so excellent a sovereign as to… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors, gives lyrics to young soldiers, designs textiles for factory… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
It was noted long ago that the front row of burlesque houses was occupied predominantly by bald-headed men. In fact, such a… — Harry S.N. Greene Copy Share Image
Classic burlesque in the style of Gypsy which many modern burlesque troupes practice is, at its core, so playful and teasing and… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
“The new acts' major influences were movies and their curvy queens Brigitte Bardot and Marilyn Monroe. With their big blonde hair, ample… — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
It just seemed fitting to have our own lounge with our own dance review that paid homage to where The Pussycat Dolls… — Nicole Scherzinger Copy Share Image
There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I know my comfort zone and I know what my strong points are and my first love was always music. I'm a… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
I have this fantasy that the second movie would begin with a brief statement by all of the young actors who had… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
There have been a lot of roles and scripts that have come my way but nothing that really inspired me or intrigued… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
The desire to express in an art form and to compose a tableau and vignette whether it's humorous, burlesque, or poetic comes… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque. — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
This is going to cause more confusion than a mouse in a burlesque show. — Foghorn Leghorn Copy Share Image
The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits -… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there's something inherently funny… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
Every one of my products - my lingerie, my perfume, and everything that I do beauty-related with regard to building my burlesque… — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
I've been involved in burlesque for a really long time and I've always been really interested in burlesque, and I was writing… — Steve Antin Copy Share Image
“Would you believe I devise my entire show based upon a single one of these jewels? It's true I choose a color… — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque. — Alan Alda Copy Share Image