His sense of humor is purely cheap vaudeville, yet everyone falls for it. — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter how cheap and tinny the show is...Soon as the house lights go down and the band starts up, I… — Frank D. Gilroy Copy Share Image
The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
TV—a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing's well done. — Goodman Ace Copy Share Image
For better or worse, I have a lot of vaudeville circus skills that you just can't showcase in Aaron Sorkin's work. — Joshua Malina Copy Share Image
I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville… — Ethel Merman Copy Share Image
If you look at vaudeville in theaters vamping between acts, it was always jokes written and banter in the moment. — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working. — Dean Stockwell Copy Share Image
Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I… — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
I once read that in vaudeville, it was often the straight guy who got paid more than the comic because that's the… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
When you are traveling in vaudeville, you experience so many different kinds of audiences, depending on what time of the week it… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It's strange because even in the vaudeville days, ventriloquists were never the main attraction. They were the guys brought out to stand… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
I'm not subject to their rise and fall because I'm not accepted by them, so I have my own little curve going… — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles,… — Larry the Cable Guy Copy Share Image
Tilting his head back he slowly released an enormous quantity of smoke from his mouth and drew it up through his nostrils.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
Anything really well-made has the effect of making you want to do what you do-better. Abrams has always made very beautiful books.… — Jon J Muth Copy Share Image
It was a great challenge to reconstruct Gypsy Rose Lee life, and my interviews with her sister [June Havoc] proved invaluable. It's… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
I'm living in a world that was created a hundred years ago with vaudeville and people traveling around and medicine shows and… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
I am not an educated person. I didn't come up through a ballet company. I came up through burlesque. So I have… — Bob Fosse Copy Share Image
When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“I know vaudeville isn't supposed to be art . It's supposed to be entertainment, which is different. But I think art...I think… — Robert Jackson Bennett Copy Share Image
If I was on Broadway, I would want to do anything Vaudeville or a biopic. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods. — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
“...posterity was a vaudeville joke audible only to those with front-row seats...” — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“You see, Evey, all the world's a stage. And everything else... ... is vaudeville.” — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
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