Las 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 -
Everytime I go to Vegas, I seem to incur some kind of fine.
-- Artie Lange -
Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.
-- Artie Lange -
I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.
-- Ben E. King -
I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.
-- David LaChapelle -
And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience.
-- Davy Jones -
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 -
Almost six years ago, before I was given the incredible opportunity to be in 'Leaving Las Vegas,' I was going through a long period of artistic confusion. I'd spent years doing work that hadn't pushed me enough, and I was beginning to wonder if I had any talent.
-- Elisabeth Shue -
After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.
-- Elisabeth Shue -
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 -
In a city of illusion, where change is what the city does, it's no wonder Las Vegas is the court of last resort, the last place to start over, to reinvent yourself in the same way that the city does, time after time. For some it works; for some it doesn't, but they keep coming and trying.
-- Hal Rothman -
In Las Vegas, people seem to believe, the prosperity spawned by tourism and gaming can make them whole, financially and spiritually. Las Vegas now melds fun, work, and wealth, showing a path toward the brightest vistas of the post-industrial world. It is the first city of the twenty-first century.
-- Hal Rothman -
If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
-- Harold Nicholas -
A little bit of this town goes a very long way.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
I love coming to Las Vegas. I've always loved it and always had a good time.
-- Ian Ziering -
She talks with a broken heart - Her voice lutes brokenly like a heart lost, musically too, like in a lost grove, it's almost too much to bear sometimes like some fantastic futuristic Jerry Southern singer in a nightclub who steps up to the mike in the spotlight in Las Vegas but doesn't even have to sing, just talk, to make men sigh and women wonder I guess...
-- Jack Kerouac -
This desert town was man's own miracle of pure purposelessness.
-- Jane Rule -
I had a great time doing Vegas. It's just that it takes a lot of time.
-- John Elway -
You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.
-- Johnny Vegas -
They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day.
-- Johnny Vegas -
I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.
-- Johnny Vegas -
You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led.
-- Johnny Vegas -
I actually enjoy being heckled; it keeps it interesting, and I think it is a nice feeling for people once they have left the show.
-- Johnny Vegas -
Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out.
-- Johnny Vegas -
I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.
-- Johnny Vegas -
With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.
-- Johnny Vegas -
If an original piece of wardrobe came up from Star Wars, I'd probably spend a lot of money on it.
-- Johnny Vegas -
I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up.
-- Johnny Vegas -
I use very few muscles at the best of times.
-- Johnny Vegas -
My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.
-- Johnny Vegas -
A couple of months ago I hauled my white ***** on stage alongside Chaka Khan and Stevie Wonder for Divas Las Vegas, singing in front of a celebrity audience. If I can hold my own there, I can hold my own at Top of the Pops, trust me.
-- Lisa Marie Presley -
I started a big part of my career in Vegas.
-- Louie Anderson -
[On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.
-- Marlene Dietrich -
I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.
-- Mary Jo Putney -
Why can't you just get married in Las Vegas like normal Americans?
-- Meg Cabot -
Las Vegas was like that. There was a visceral attraction here. The bold promise of money and sex. But the first was a broken promise, a mirage, and the second was fraught with danger, expense, physical and mental risk. It was where the real gambling took place in this town.
-- Michael Connelly -
It's a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and ***** the dawn, when everybody knows that if you're feeling lucky you're really feeling time in its rawest form, and if you're not feeling lucky, they've got a clock at the bus station.
-- Michael Herr -
I love San Francisco, it's very hard to compete with San Francisco when it comes to availability of product, but one thing you can't replace about Las Vegas or Miami is people are walking in the door and they want to have a good time. They walk in, and this is the start of their good time.
-- Michael Mina -
I believe what makes cooking in Las Vegas different from cooking in most other cities are the guests that dine with you in Las Vegas.
-- Michael Mina -
There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there
-- Michael Richards -
I don't want to be a rock star all my life. I couldn't bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags
-- Mick Jagger -
My 2005 calendar we actually did a shoot in Lake Las Vegas. Since I had requests do some swimwear and athletic shots we tried them and they came out good so we inserted them into the new calendar.
-- Natalie Gulbis -
Las Vegas is a city of kickbacks. A desert city of greased palms. A place where a $20 bill can buy approval, a $100 bill adulation and $1,000 canonization.
-- Nicholas Pileggi -
I met Elvis first in Las Vegas. I think I was appearing with Tom Jones and he came backstage to say hello to Tom or we went to his dressing room to say hello.
-- Norm Crosby -
I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.
-- Otis Blackwell -
The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.
-- Patrick Duffy -
Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.
-- Paul Samuelson -
There is something in people; you might even call it a little bit of a gambling instinct… I tell people investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting. Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.
-- Paul Samuelson -
I really love Las Vegas. Its, like, my favorite place to be. I love to DJ out there. It is the place to be as a DJ.
-- Pauly D -
When one of Lisa's baby teeth fell out here, the tooth fairy left her 50 cents. Another tooth fell out when she was with her father in Las Vegas, and that tooth fairy left her $5. When I told Elvis that 50 cents would be more in line, he laughed. He knew I was not criticizing him; how would Elvis Presley know the going rate for a tooth?
-- Priscilla Presley -
No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.
-- Ralph Nader -
I'd rather be in Las Vegas 104 degrees than New York 90 degrees, you know why? Legalized prostitution. In any weather that takes the edge off.
-- Ray Romano -
We know that Las Vegas is junk, but at the same time I think that exactly the same process and ultimately also, perhaps the same logic, attaches itself to or underlies our masterpieces. We live in an amazing era when in spite of an absence of masters there is an explosion of masterpieces.
-- Rem Koolhaas -
I love Vegas. God knows that I know how to find my way around the buffets in Las Vegas.
-- Rick Majerus -
I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and then I left there to go to the University of Evansville where I majored in theatre.
-- Rutina Wesley -
Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers.
-- Sarah Vowell -
I mean, what do you do in Las Vegas? You gamble - and you go to strip clubs.
-- Scott Caan -
Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!
-- Sigourney Weaver -
I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.
-- Solomon Burke -
The success of one market model cannot be migrated to another. Ignoring Macau's special characteristics and duplicating a Las Vegas or an Atlantic City would not be a successful strategy.
-- Stanley Ho -
The only thing constant is change, we keep going through it not only in Las Vegas but in every part of our business and culture
-- Steve Lawrence -
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
-- Thomas Sowell -
Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.
-- Todd Phillips -
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
-- Tom Waits -
If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time.
-- Tony Curtis -
Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.
-- Walter Wykes -
Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.
-- Wayne Newton -
Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early.
-- William J. Clinton -
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is perfect in the same way that The Great Gatsby is perfect. Take a pencil and read these books, looking for something that doesn't sound right, something you'd want to change. You'll leave the page untouched.
-- William McKeen -
One of the things I like about being a celebrity is that you can get away with murder. Not just metaphorically, literally. Remember that annoying blond dog reporter at E News used to talk smack about me? I paid two mobsters five million dollars each to throw her off the Stratosphere tower in Las Vegas.
-- Zach Braff -
If what happens in Las Vegas is supposed to stay in Las Vegas, how did Harry Reid get out?
-- Wesley Pruden -
It's like a crapshoot in Las Vegas, except in Las Vegas the odds are with the house. As for the market, the odds are with you, because on average over the long run, the market has paid off.
-- Harry Markowitz -
I was born in Las Vegas and my babysitter was a female Elvis Presley impersonator. My first memory is being in her arms and she was fully dressed up as Elvis. She was an avid thrift-shopper so I started going to thrift shops when I was very young. You could put something together for no money at all.
-- Jenny Lewis -
I've played a lot in Las Vegas in my life.
-- Julio Iglesias
