Vaudeville famous quotes

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

#Party #Looks #Vaudeville

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

#Vaudeville #Likes

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

#Stars #Broadway #Vaudeville

With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.
-- George Burns

#Vaudeville #Talent #Stink

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

#Clever #Done #Vaudeville

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

#Ideas #Vaudeville #Flaws

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

#Television #Vaudeville #Boxes

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

#Fall #Vaudeville #Sense Of Humor

Each couple is its own vaudeville act.
-- Zadie Smith

#Couple #Vaudeville

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

#Clever #Done #Vaudeville