Burlesque Quote by Steve Antin

What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other; as…

— Henry Fielding

You have to understand the medium you're writing for. People jump into writing musicals without realizing how complicated they are. Knowing one form doesn't…

— Jason Robert Brown

No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came…

— Trey Parker

When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and…

— David Bryan

We already tried writing musicals. Sometimes that failure can become a cause for us. We had so much passion for the idea of doing…

— Ron Mael

I've always had a love affair with New York City, and I've threatened to get an apartment there one day. But it just made…

— Steve Antin

I actually had a movie green lit at Disney the same week 'Burlesque' was green lit - a movie for Disney called 'Mash-Up', about…

— Steve Antin

The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent…

— Pedro Almodovar

I'd done drag since I was 14, for special occasions, and in 2010 a friend of mine with her own burlesque group was looking…

— Conchita Wurst

“The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. "The difference is movement. On Broadway, unadorned…

— Dita Von Teese

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

— I. F. Stone

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition…

— Dawn Powell

I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have…

— George Sidney

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