Vaudeville Quotes

37 Vaudeville quotes by 35 unique authors

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really… — Steve Martin
George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved. — Tom Waits
His sense of humor is purely cheap vaudeville, yet everyone falls for it. — Lisa Lutz
Stargirl began to improvise. She flung her arms to a make-believe crowd like a celebrity on parade. She waggled her fingers at the stars. She… — Jerry Spinelli
When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form… — Neil Postman
Each couple is its own vaudeville act. — Zadie Smith
Tilting his head back he slowly released an enormous quantity of smoke from his mouth and drew it up through his nostrils. He continued to… — J D Salinger
as a lobbyist he had long ago concluded there was no difference in how Democrats and Republicans conducted the business of government. The game stayed… — Carl Hiaasen
On the Bowery, in the ornate carcass of a formerly grand vaudeville theater, a dance marathon limps along. The contestants, young girls and their fellas,… — Libba Bray
Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum, I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in vaudeville tap dance.… — James Cagney
There were a great many in vaudeville - people who never quite came through. But they had their place, and they filled it. They kept… — Alfred Lunt
Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone… — Karen Abbott
My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working. — Dean Stockwell
I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it… — Julie Andrews
If I was on Broadway, I would want to do anything Vaudeville or a biopic. — Kat Graham
TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's… — Goodman Ace
I'm not subject to their rise and fall because I'm not accepted by them, so I have my own little curve going on. A lot… — Leo Kottke

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