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Vaudeville Quotes

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I have never had anything that I can remember in the business - and that includes all the movies and the stage shows and everything - that I didn't enjoy. I didn't like some of the small-time vaudeville, because we weren't going on and getting better. Aside from that, I didn't dislike anything.
Fred Astaire

Authors on Vaudeville Quotes: Goodman Ace Elbert Hubbard Fred Astaire Alan Moore Ethel Merman John Baldessari Tom Waits Charles Bukowski Julie Andrews Steve Martin Alan King Lisa Lutz Zadie Smith Arundhati Roy Anna Held
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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 coherent.
John Baldessari

3.
They call television a medium because nothing's well done.
Goodman Ace

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Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.
Charles Bukowski

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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TV—a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing's well done.
Goodman Ace

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The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.
Alan Moore

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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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Each couple is its own vaudeville act.
Zadie Smith

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Election campaigns seem to siphon away political anger and even basic political intelligence into this great vaudeville, after which we all end up in exactly the same place.
Arundhati Roy

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His sense of humor is purely cheap vaudeville, yet everyone falls for it.
Lisa Lutz

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In God's great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner.
Elbert Hubbard