Vaudeville Quotes

“It doesn't matter how cheap and tinny the show is...Soon as the house lights go down and the band starts up, I could cry.”
― Frank D. Gilroy, The Subject Was Roses

“You see, Evey, all the world's a stage. And everything else...

... is vaudeville.”
― Alan Moore

“How to explain Time and Separateness back to God, Who had never thought of them, Who could let the whole world come to grief in a scattering moment?”
― Eudora Welty

“They felt obliged to go on living as if Britain had not died, with troupes of hypnotists encouraging viewers in their suspension of disbelief. Institutions must reproduce themselves - including, perhaps most crucially those of nation and state…They abandoned it some time ago, and what we are left with is not so much Britain as ‘Britain’ - the inverted comma ex-Realm of of Her Majesty… Britain has remoreselessly crumbled into vaudeville ‘Britain’, a realm of general impersonation and self-delusion.”
― Tom Nairn, Pariah: Misfortunes of The British Kingdom

“Vaudeville, like everything else (well, nearly everything else), eventually disappeared. Movies came in and dealt vaudeville its first shattering blow. Then along came radio, and, of course, the thrust mortal was television.”
― Groucho Marx, Groucho and Me

“Having worked in vaudeville and on Broadway for a number of years, Margaret had most assuredly heard of the Marx Brothers. The brothers had heard of Margaret. “She was very popular,” Groucho
noted years later about learning Margaret would be in the play. “She was almost as big a star as we were. Everybody was crazy about Dumont.”
― Chris Enss, Straight Lady: The Life and Times of Margaret Dumont, "The Fifth Marx Brother"