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
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
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
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
I do some very high energy comedy, vaudeville, music hall stuff, and people who've seen my work on camera, on TV and… — Denis Lawson Copy Share Image
If you find yourself concentrating on the technology rather than the sociology, you're like the vaudeville character who loses his keys on… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a… — Leslie Nielsen Copy Share Image
Election campaigns seem to siphon away political anger and even basic political intelligence into this great vaudeville, after which we all end… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got… — Julie Andrews 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
For me, my preference for comedy is grounding it in the psychology of the character, and not just kind of making faces.… — Matt McGorry 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
Gypsy [Rose Lee], who was called Louise as a kid, gave her first performances here with her sister [June Hovac], playing for… — Karen Abbott 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a… — Goodman Ace Copy Share Image
Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has… — Edgar Bergen Copy Share Image
Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and… — Alan King Copy Share Image
I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get… — Babe Ruth Copy Share Image
I will step outside the system. Voting for the “lesser evil”-or failing to vote at all-is part of the corporate agenda to… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
There were a great many in vaudeville - people who never quite came through. But they had their place, and they filled… — Alfred Lunt 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
as a lobbyist he had long ago concluded there was no difference in how Democrats and Republicans conducted the business of government.… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
Stargirl began to improvise. She flung her arms to a make-believe crowd like a celebrity on parade. She waggled her fingers at… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
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