#vaudeville

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

#books #bought #discipline #doing #enjoyed

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#comedian #comedy #doing #get #going

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved. ↗

— Tom Waits

#george #george burns #i #loved #particularly

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

— Anna Held

#i do #like #likes #me #vaudeville

My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working. ↗

— Dean Stockwell

#children #had #her #mother #quit

So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object! ↗

— Edgar Bergen

#before #bill #book #buffalo #enough

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

#become #bit #broadway #broadway musicals #get

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

#adversities #background #because #carp #got

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

#call #clever #contraction #derived #done

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville. ↗

— Edgar Bergen

#church #definitely #going #housekeeping #how