“ Vaudeville, whatever its asininity, was at least to be taken casually and the worse it was the more jocular it seemed to fellows who didn't mind throwing away a dollar. ”
- George Jean Nathan- Copy
“ Vaudeville, like the vanished hansom cab, the window tables at Delmonico's and Sherry's, the four-hour lunches at Luchows and checkers at Lafayette, has paid the price of modern speed, money-grubbing and excited boredom. No longer is there time for such things; no longer are ease and casualness part of our lives; no longer are evenings to be sampled haphazardly. ”
- George Jean Nathan- Copy
“ It was the most democratic popular art in American history. To get onstage, all you needed was chutzpah and moxie. If you had the right stuff, you picked up the dance steps, the vocal style, the comic timing that could make you a star — maybe even one of the Marx Brothers… ”
- Stefan Kanfer- Copy
“ And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet. ”
- John Guare- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ Like the Yiddish theater and the circus, vaudeville was a family affair — singing sisters, dancing brothers, and flying families. ”
- Unknown- Copy
“ Vaudeville was the only thing I knew so I tried to break in. Unfortunately for me, vaudeville was already dead and gone. ”
- Lucille Ball- Copy
“ With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink. ”
- George Burns- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway. ”
- Danny Kaye- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ It is not that the old-time vaudeville show was a good show; it often, certainly, was anything but that. It was rather that it had an innocence and artlessness that made it appealing to men who prefer to take their diversion in an easy-come-easy-go fashion instead of in the railroad-schedule manner imposed upon them by present-day theatrical managers and traffic cops. ”
- George Jean Nathan- Copy
“ Vaudeville was a symptom of... a time and a year when there was place for boyish fun and simple nonsense and engaging unconcern. It was a kid game for men in their kid moments. And men don't seem to have such moments any more. ”
- George Jean Nathan- Copy
“ Vaudeville could not vouch for the honesty, the integrity, or the mentality of the individuals who collectively made up the horde the medium embraced. All the human race demands of its members is that they be born. That is all vaudeville demanded. You just had to be born… ”
- Fred Allen- Copy
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