Vaudeville Quotes

37 quotes by 35 authors

In God's great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner. — Elbert Hubbard
I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway… — Ethel Merman
Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from work… — Mickey Rooney
The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're… — Leslie Nielsen
No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six oâ€™clock news,… — Ishmael Reed
Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole… — Emanuel Lasker
Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater. — James Broughton
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 leading to the… — Ambrose Bierce
Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today is like a… — Adolf Hitler
I do not like vaudeville, but what can I do? It likes me. — Anna Held
I heard there were two local guys in town doing songs and comedy so I thought I'd take a look....they took my breath away...with their… — Tommy Smothers
Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville. — Edgar Bergen
With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink. — George Burns
I will step outside the system. Voting for the â€œlesser evilâ€-or failing to vote at all-is part of the corporate agenda to crush what is… — Chris Hedges
So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have… — Edgar Bergen
TVâ€”a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing's well done. — Goodman Ace
If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in. — Larry Gelbart
Vaudeville could not vouch for the honesty, the integrity, or the mentality of the individuals who collectively made up the horde the medium embraced. All… — Fred Allen
You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway. — Danny Kaye
Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it… — Alan King

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