19 Vaudeville Quotes for You to Enjoy

Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight. Karen Abbott

I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, all those guys. Hilarious. I love the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movies, and Abbott & Costello. My television influences were 'Monty Python's Flying Circus,' 'Benny Hill,' and 'Hee Haw.' Larry the Cable Guy

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Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it just a tremendous party. Alan King

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My best memories growing up are of putting on musicals with my mom and dad, Both of them are real hams; it was like vaudeville in East Hampton. Alexa Ray Joel

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

Me Vaudeville Like Likes

Magic has both feet planted in cheap vaudeville and childish posturing; in dishonesty and therefore not in art. Derren Brown

Art Childish Magic Both Vaudeville Cheap Feet Dishonesty Planted Therefore

A real New Yorker is always someone who came here from somewhere else to avoid some kind of persecution, often sexual-preference based, or to be discovered in one of the infinite-though-no-longer-thriving alternative scenes, i.e. theater, music, dance, vaudeville, art, drag, or, in those of the greatest egos, to be 'the next Andy Warhol.' Genesis P-Orridge

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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

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I came to N.Y.C. in 1988 and got very involved with Act Up. I also started making movies, including two very gay shorts, 'Vaudeville' and 'Lady.' It was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and New York City was both dying and very alive at the same time. Ira Sachs

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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

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My dad would take me downtown, and I'd stand backstage and watch him in the vaudeville pit band. I was 6 or 7. He was a musician, a band leader, a wonderful clarinetist and saxophone player. Joel Grey

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For better or worse, I have a lot of vaudeville circus skills that you just can't showcase in Aaron Sorkin's work. Joshua Malina

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If I was on Broadway, I would want to do anything Vaudeville or a biopic. Kat Graham

Broadway Would Vaudeville Want Anything

In the United States, female fisticuffs were marginalized, first as erotic vaudeville in the 19th century and later as serious competition developed in the first half of the 20th. Legal wars waged by boxers in the 1960s and '70s won women the right to compete professionally nationwide. Katherine Dunn

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

Television Vaudeville Had Put Box Died

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

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In the jargon of American vaudeville, Professors Frisch and Tinbergen are a 'hard act to follow.' But then, all my life, I have been following such great scholars and policy advisors as these. Paul Samuelson

Life Great My Life All My Life Follow Following Vaudeville Scholars Policy Advisor Been American Jargon Then Act Hard Professors

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

Vaudeville Performer Particularly George George Burns Loved Burns

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