[on being told he was being awarded an honorary knighthood] What an honor and what a surprise for a boy born in England, raised in Cleveland and schooled in vaudeville.
Bob Hope
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. Asi...
Fred Astaire
You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway. [On being an overnight film success in the 1940s]
Danny Kaye
[from a 1988 interview] I`ve never looked at acting as "Ahhh!" and "Gee!" I started in vaudeville when I was five and for me it was just walking on a stage and I`m gonna perform. Later on I was impressed by many things, like when I worked with Burt Lancas...
Billy Barty
Our philosophy is to make history come alive. The use of a vaudeville show allows students to connect with local history through the hook of entertainment.
Bob Johnson
Meloy`s balladry brings to mind vaudeville, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley, `Sweeney Todd,` the Victorian and Edwardian eras, Kurt Weill and Nick Cave, 1960s psychedelic rock pop and roaring pub sing-alongs.
Colin Meloy
I`m not subject to their rise and fall because I`m not accepted by them, so I have my own little curve going on. A lot of it is because of how much I play, I think I connect like when all you had was Vaudeville, I think I have an audience by performing a ...
Leo Kottke
[on being told he was being awarded an honorary knighthood] What an honor and what a surprise for a boy born in England, raised in Cleveland and schooled in vaudeville.
Bob Hope
