Backstage Quote by Joel Grey

I love that moment just before the curtain goes up, whether I'm sitting in the audience or standing backstage. It's full of expectation. It's…

— Joel Grey

Vaudeville could not vouch for the honesty, the integrity, or the mentality of the individuals who collectively made up the horde the medium embraced.…

— Fred Allen

I once read that in vaudeville, it was often the straight guy who got paid more than the comic because that's the tougher job.…

— Michael Dirda

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and…

— Leslie Nielsen

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

The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not…

— John Baldessari

“...posterity was a vaudeville joke audible only to those with front-row seats...”

— Roberto Bolano

On the Bowery, in the ornate carcass of a formerly grand vaudeville theater, a dance marathon limps along. The contestants, young girls and their…

— Libba Bray

I do some very high energy comedy, vaudeville, music hall stuff, and people who've seen my work on camera, on TV and movies, would…

— Denis Lawson

If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

— Larry Gelbart

as a lobbyist he had long ago concluded there was no difference in how Democrats and Republicans conducted the business of government. The game…

— Carl Hiaasen

Election campaigns seem to siphon away political anger and even basic political intelligence into this great vaudeville, after which we all end up in…

— Arundhati Roy