Vaudeville Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Each couple is its own vaudeville act.

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

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

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.