Vegas famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.
-- Adam Sandler -
Ay Rios, you want to fight at 140? We can fight at 140. You're chubby, I just seen you in Vegas, you were chubby, your ears were chubby.
-- Adrien Broner -
Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperors orgy is now a democratic institution. Topless Pizza Lunch.
-- Alistair Cooke -
I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Everytime I go to Vegas, I seem to incur some kind of fine.
-- Artie Lange -
We're all living in a casino. It's just Vegas. Everything is on camera. Everything is being recorded. Everything is on audio. The truth is we all have access to everybody else's information.
-- Ashton Kutcher -
If we want money we’ll go to Las Vegas, if we want an after party we’ll go to Miami but if we want to play for love, we still come to India!
-- Axwell -
When i play in Las Vegas I play for money, when I play in Miami I play for holidays but when I play in #India I play for Love
-- Axwell -
I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.
-- Ben E. King -
I've been trying to watch my weight a bit, but when I come to Las Vegas, all bets are off. I get enough healthy food in L.A. where the food is the size of a quarter and costs $40 - when I'm in Vegas, I want a steak!
-- Billy Gardell -
You know, I'm playing the Mirage in Vegas, the main room... About 5 percent of all comics end up as the main headliner on the Vegas Strip, so that's a big deal for me. Getting to do my stand-up the way I have this summer is really what I've dreamed of since I was about 10 years old.
-- Billy Gardell -
I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.
-- Bobby Vinton -
The first thing I think of when I think about coming to Las Vegas and playing is always Elvis; its always the first thing on my mind.
-- Brandi Carlile -
Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into one of these windowless scary gambling-malls, drink yourself silly, lose your ***** at roulette, and then go ogle showgirls with breast implants. Republicans do this now. Working-class folks do it in polyester stretch pants. It's normal.
-- Bruce Sterling -
Las Vegas turns women into men and men into idiots.
-- Bugsy Siegel -
KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
-- Carlos Santana -
You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!
-- Carrie Fisher -
I'd love to do a show in Vegas with drag queens. The tackier the better.
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones -
Tonight, I would like to pay tribute to the greatest entertainer of all time, Mr. Elvis Presley. Elvis was Las Vegas. And if it wasn't for him, so many performers like myself would not have the chance to do what we do in this town. He really was the king.
-- Celine Dion -
It seems strange to say this, but it is true: Coming back to Vegas to work is like going on vacation for me.
-- Celine Dion -
You can take the girl out of Vegas, but you can't take the Vegas out of the girl.
-- Charisma Carpenter -
There was this one time in Vegas when I took four Victoria's Secret models and did one gram off each of their bodies within, like, 45 minutes. I declared myself King of Vegas and decided to remodel my hotel room with my bare hands to resemble King Louis XIV's bedroom at Versailles. Knocked down two entire walls, and later had four knuckle surgeries. Still wasn't as high as Rob Ford.
-- Charlie Sheen -
People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag.
-- Christopher Meloni -
Any artist who goes to Las Vegas is an idiot as far as I am concerned. Whoever goes to Las Vegas can stay in Las Vegas.
-- Chuck Close -
Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.
-- Clive James -
Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.
-- Concha Buika -
I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.
-- Connie Stevens -
I have a new saying, what I see in Vegas, I am telling everybody.
-- Dane Cook -
I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.
-- David Cassidy -
I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.
-- David LaChapelle -
Branson, Missouri, is Vegas for people with no teeth.
-- Dennis Miller -
I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.
-- Dennis Rodman -
Because I can go to Vegas and make the money I do, I'm able to spend a lot more time producing music that I love.
-- Diplo -
Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years.
-- Donny Osmond -
Vegas is everything that's right with America. You can do whatever you want, 24 hours a day. They've effectively legalized everything there.
-- Drew Carey -
The difference between Las Vegas and Atlantic City is the difference between getting conned by a beautiful call girl and getting mugged by a crack head.
-- Drew Carey -
I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
-- Eddie Van Halen -
When I played the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve, I got to bring Wiley, my 85-pound black lab. He's responsible for my favorite New Year's memory of all: At the end of the show, he ran onstage and then out across all the tables in the showroom, sending champagne glasses and gamblers flying.
-- Elayne Boosler -
Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark, The Aladdin, The Frontier, The Hacienda, The Stardust - all were imploded.
-- Elayne Boosler -
I don't like working in a studio, at all. I just prefer to be on location, rather than hearing the bells of the studio going off. It's like being in Las Vegas, where no one knows the time and there are no windows.
-- Eric Bana -
Las Vegas doesn't allow ( tourism ) to dictate the social norms of their community. We don't have to be a boring town that no one is willing to come to. ( But, ) we can't let tourism be the reason for not taking action. Accountability is not there. As a community we can be different. We don't have to be what our visitors are. We can work at policies that will make us a vibrant healthy resort community.
-- Eric Thomas -
Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.
-- Esther Williams -
Many a man who goes to Las Vegas to get away from it all soon finds that Las Vegas gets it all away from him.
-- Evan Esar -
Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven.
-- Evan Esar -
Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks--it says, Goodbye.
-- Frank Sinatra -
I cherish the memory of being a friend of Frank Sinatra on a friendship level to the point where we really hung out. We worked in Vegas, wed talk on the phone, and if I wasnt doing anything, Id fly out, and I spent time in Palm Springs at his house - on a level the way friends would be, not with a whole crowd of people.
-- Frankie Valli -
No, there are some location shoots in Vegas, maybe four trips a year. It's shot in Santa Clarita, CA.
-- George Eads -
Vegas is definitely a place where we can win. We had a good run here last year, and I feel even more confident about the car we're taking this time. We're taking the car that we raced in California two weeks ago, and it was obviously a good car.
-- Greg Biffle -
I was just in Las Vegas, where prostitution is legal. Which is a relief because I live in Los Angeles, where it is mandatory.
-- Greg Fitzsimmons -
Capitalism is a warrior culture, a hierarchical mode, and Las Vegas is its epitome.
-- Hal Rothman -
No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend.
-- Hal Rothman -
Las Vegas was and is a hard town that will make you pay for your inability to restrain your desires.... If you have a weakness, Las Vegas will punish you.
-- Hal Rothman -
Las Vegas is still socially sanctioned deviance. Its brand is just more comfortable to more Americans than it used to be.
-- Hal Rothman -
Hollywood is in somewhat the same position as Las Vegas these days. It went from being the capital of sin to Disneyland, and now it's landed somewhere in between. It tries to keep the sins hidden away and outwardly present itself as a defender of American virtues: justice, individual freedom, and the power of one innocent soul to save the world.
-- Hanna Rosin -
I shoot for 'Extra' three times a week, and that's great for Las Vegas, too. In addition to interviewing stars who are here for shows, parties and premieres, I'll also get peoples' reactions to different news items and topical gossip.
-- Holly Madison -
With no pretensions of art, Viva Las Vegas, the new Elvis Presley vehicle, is about as pleasant and unimportant as a Banana Split.
-- Howard Thompson -
For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
Las Vegas is a society of armed masturbators/gambling is the kicker here/sex is extra/weird trip for high rollers ... house-whores for winners, hand jobs for the bad luck crowd.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
I love coming to Las Vegas. I've always loved it and always had a good time.
-- Ian Ziering -
While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.
-- J. R. Moehringer -
Yeah, Vegas is the number one place to go. Vegas is Sin City. It really gives you a feeling of looseness and anything can go.
-- James Belushi -
I didn't much like Las Vegas. The noise of the place and the whole 24-hour, 'let's play the slot machines all night' culture of the place just left me cold.
-- James Nesbitt -
I have never taken a road trip. Unless you count Los Angeles to Vegas.
-- Jamie Lynn Sigler -
There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley, dominating those diligent sprawling suburbs, the downtown city sneers like anything.
-- Jan Morris -
We got married drunk in Vegas . . . We dated for a year, and we got married at a drive-through chapel in a cab. [We thought] you have to go down to the courthouse and sign papers and stuff, so who knew? We were married, and apparently now that [Rob] is getting married for real, his lawyer dug up something.
-- Janeane Garofalo -
Oh, here's your tax dollars at work. This is what makes people furious. The head of the GSA, a woman named Martha Johnson, has resigned after they found out she spent over $830,000 on a four-day government conference in Las Vegas. And the president is furious. Not President Obama, the president of China. It's his money. It's his money she spent.
-- Jay Leno -
An intruder broke into Mike Tyson's hotel room in Las Vegas while he was sleeping but got out before Tyson could get to him. I don't know what's scarier. Having someone breaking into your room while you're sleeping or breaking into someone else's room and finding out the guy is Mike Tyson.
-- Jay Leno -
Our old - fashioned system is better than any new - fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but there is something I find appealing in putting a mark on a piece of paper for the candidate of your choice, as opposed to pulling a lever as if you were gambling on a slot machine in Las Vegas.
-- Jean Chretien -
Some guys are more worried about their Vegas trip at the end of the season than playing the games, than playing every minute of the games. Quite frankly, I don't care about your Vegas trip right now.
-- Jean-Sebastien Giguere -
I don't really go out much at all. But there are times when I'm like, 'I gotta get out.' Then we go to Vegas, and we'll gamble.
-- Jenny McCarthy -
I don't know what happened to architecture [in Las-Vegas] I think they're getting us ready for space colonies or something, nobody puts a window in that you can crack.
-- Jim Carrey -
Sure, we loaned money to build hotels and casinos in Las Vegas. So what? Las Vegas borrowers were good customers.
-- Jimmy Hoffa -
Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of Americas brittle and mutating id.
-- John Burdett -
In Las Vegas we all know that it's the croupiers who win. At the race track, it's those who control the handle who win. State lotteries, does anybody think the participants in the lottery win? No. The state wins.
-- John C. Bogle -
I had a great time doing Vegas. It's just that it takes a lot of time.
-- John Elway -
In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game.
-- John Ensign -
My road trips have been to Vegas, but you know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
-- John Travolta -
I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market.
-- Josh Brolin -
[On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city where vices become virtues, become what everyone is here to do.
-- Karen Kijewski -
And the lesson is that I should always wear these, so no one asks me to do anything crazy like climb onto a roof. ~Jaime Vegas on why she wears three inch heels on a mission
-- Kelley Armstrong -
One of the first lessons a necromancer learns is the art of playing dumb. Of course, one problem with playing dumb is that is seeps into your everyday life. ~Jaime Vegas
-- Kelley Armstrong -
This is the first adventure I’ve survived without being kidnapped, attacked, knocked unconscious or possessed by evil spirits. A ripped blouse? Ruined skirt? Bad hair? I’d call this progress. ~Jaime Vegas
-- Kelley Armstrong -
Last time I was sick, the guy I was seeing brought me a bottle of ginger ale… and expected me to pay him back for it. ~Jaime Vegas
-- Kelley Armstrong -
Nuh-uh. No deals with the devil. I’ve learned my lesson on that one. ~Jaime Vegas
-- Kelley Armstrong -
And the bad guys love to pick on the defenseless necromancer. This time, though, I swear I won’t get kidnapped or possessed. ~Jaime Vegas
-- Kelley Armstrong -
Nothing screws up a séance like the appearance of a real ghost. ~Jaime Vegas
-- Kelley Armstrong -
I saw my true power. The darkest power. The greatest power. ~Jaime Vegas
-- Kelley Armstrong -
Let’s just say that being able to contact ghosts makes for some very interesting ménages á trios… and ménages á quartre, and ménages á … whatever five is in French. ~Jaime Vegas
-- Kelley Armstrong -
I could shave my head and wear a sackcloth and still get a whole lot of ghostly wrong numbers. Makes me wonder if there’s some kind of ghost-necro ***** industry down there. ~Jaime Vegas
-- Kelley Armstrong -
I basically left Texas with no money. I was making $3.50 working in some mall, so I didn't have a lot of cash. I took $1,000 and headed to California. Along the way I stopped in Vegas because I had always wanted to see Caesar's Palace. So I stopped there and won $2,500 on a slot machine! It was amazing.
-- Krista Allen -
You know how they say, 'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas?' What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic.
-- Kumi Naidoo
