Bills Quote by Edgar Bergen

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…

— Steve Martin

There were a great many in vaudeville - people who never quite came through. But they had their place, and they filled it. They…

— Alfred Lunt

I'm a fan of old vaudeville theaters.

— Ralphie May

My parents were in Vaudeville, in musical. And I would tour with them and had a couple of wonderfully lucky breaks in England.

— Julie Andrews

In White Plains I wasn't theatrical at all. I was a model and I used to take the train into New York three days…

— John Davidson

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the…

— Karen Abbott

From 1840 to 1940, the circus was the biggest form of entertainment in the country. People were starting to have money, starting to have…

— Beth Macy

I don't have a lot of recreation time. I've always been under the assumption that if you're selling tickets you need to work. The…

— Larry the Cable Guy

I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.

— R. Kelly

God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.

— Tony Kushner

My first time performing was in the black box theater of my high school's basement as a member of 'Clownaz,' the school's improv team.…

— Joe Mande