Vaudeville Quotes

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 enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.
Steve Martin

Act, Books, Discipline

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 through all kinds of adversities.
Julie Andrews

Through, Kinds, Background

You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.
Danny Kaye

Few, Nights, Bet

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.
Tom Waits

Loved, Performer, Burns

I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals.
Ethel Merman

Become, Star, Movie

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

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 of it is because of how much I play, I think I connect like when all you had was Vaudeville, I think I have an audience by performing a lot!
Leo Kottke

Play, Fall, Rise

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

Movies, Everything, Dance

TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done.
Goodman Ace

Nothing, Done, Words

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.
Leslie Nielsen

Laugh, Violence, Comedy

It's strange because even in the vaudeville days, ventriloquists were never the main attraction. They were the guys brought out to stand in front of the curtain while sets were being changed. Ventriloquism wasn't even celebrated as an art until Edgar Bergen came along in the 1930s.
Jeff Dunham

Art, Strange, Until

So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
Edgar Bergen

Money, Today, Book

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.
Edgar Bergen

Love, Movies, Church

My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working.
Dean Stockwell

Mother, Children, After

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

Put, Television, Died

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