Acts Quote by Karen Abbott

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

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 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

Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from…

— Mickey Rooney

I do not like vaudeville, but what can I do? It likes me.

— Anna Held

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

— James Broughton

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

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

— Quincy Jones

I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be…

— Todd Barry

Musicals spring forth from minstrelsy, vaudeville, melodramas; it was all these things combined to create the form.

— George C. Wolfe

The gospel of cheerfulness, I had almost said the gospel of amusement, is preached by people who lack experience to people who lack vitality.…

— Agnes Repplier

Somehow, it was so happy a time. Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

— Colin Quinn