Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Hall

There's an old joke that strippers work for money and burlesque dancers work for applause. For many of them, it's not the way they make a living - they just do it because they like to do it.

Dita Von Teese

Every one of my products - my lingerie, my perfume, and everything that I do beauty-related with regard to building my burlesque shows - is just me.

Nan Curtis

Like Degas did a lot of dancers, Toulouse-Lautrec spent a great deal of time in dance halls and burlesque halls and painted the dancers, the drinkers and those who were out away from their wives.

Ivan Kane

I think it's got long legs, like my dancers. Classic burlesque has a comical element. Do I think it will go there? No.

Esme Bianco

Objectivity is almost a choice you make. As a burlesque performer, I didn't choose to be objectified.

Michael Peterson

The venue deserves a late-night slot, and for that we've gone for Jimmy and a burlesque show and an almost-anything-goes comedy show with Jonathan Atherton.

Anton LaVey

The carnival was the predecessor to the burlesque world-this all tied together, the psychic, the hypnotic... That gave me a good foundation for playing the girlie shows, my opportunity to play for female dancers. I also played midway music and worked the sex shows.

Eddie Izzard

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

Ben Stiller

Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.

Ben Stiller

Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.

Carol Leifer

I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility.

Mark Billingham

Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off.

Aisha Tyler

I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.

Bob Newhart

I feel more comfortable in comedy.

Bernie Mac

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

Jim Rogers

Where's a group that really deserves something? Veterans.

Jesse Segall

When it comes down to a trial, we're going to try go get people down to support him. He's one of the nicest kids ever. He deserves our support.

Bob Stoops

We feel that Rhett deserves an opportunity to have the opportunities that Paul had and see what he can do with, ... That's the direction we're going to go and work from there.

Cheryl Rice

We're really excited. I'm just happy for Alberta. She's worked so hard. She deserves it. She's paid her dues and she deserves it.

Ed Jasper

It's a shame the way that game turned out because Tommy deserves more recognition than he's going to get now.

John Franklin

This guy's family deserves a peaceful funeral. It's not right what they're doing. The only reason they're able to walk around like that is because the veterans fought for their freedom.

Gordon Hartwell

They told us about it (in) the third quarter. That's why she was in in the fourth quarter. The level of player that she is, it's fitting. She deserves it. She's worked her tail off.

Thurman Bell

It's not my priority to get kids a Division I ride. It's just a plus when they get that opportunity. Kyle has a special talent and he is fortunate to be able to use it to get an education. He has put in a lot of hours and he deserves it.

Frederick Moran

This is the one ad-driven media play that stands out significantly. Lamar is seeing rising occupancy rates and deserves a premium multiple.

Charles Stross

To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

C. S. Lewis

Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.

C. S. Lewis

Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.

Charles Lamb

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

Charlaine Harris

all my bounce has gone flat, like soda with the top left off.

Charlie Kaufman

clementine: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon. Joel: I know Clementine: What do we do? Joel: Enjoy it.

Bill Watterson

I'm crying because out there he's gone, but he's not gone inside me.

Tony Blair

There is no point in speculating what happens down the line if you reach an impasse. But there is a lot of processes that have to be gone through before you are at that point, not least the Security Council.

Jim Taylor

We've always gone non-smoking in communities where (a ban) has passed.

P. J. O'Rourke

Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time.

Tamara Mellon

I went back to the factories that I worked with at Jimmy Choo because they don't work for Jimmy Choo exclusively.

Jim Sullivan

Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn't, No! it wasn't me either.

Johnny Rivers

I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.

Mark Indelicato

I didn't know who Jimmy Choo was. I think Vanessa Williams was also a very big part of that, teaching me about the designers. I had no choice but to learn, and I'm glad I did.

Todd Bodine

Jimmy just does what Jimmy does, ... If he can't pass you he runs into you.

Ron Beard

Jimmy was in the groove. He looked unstoppable.

Don Reed

Wherever you go in Montana, you are going to run into someone who knows Jimmy Dow in athletics.

Quin Snyder

We lost track of Moody. If Jimmy doesn't do that, then we don't go into overtime.

Lauren Worsham

I played Jonathan Livingston Seagull in a musical version of 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull' in Austin, TX. It was pretty special.

Natalie Massenet

It's interesting to see how some of the womenswear designers that we have long worked with at Net-A-Porter are developing menswear collections - Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders and Richard Nicoll.

Issac Marsh

Jonathan Elliott ran very well. To have him at tailback and to have our starting tailback, Stephen Nicholson, back next week, it ought to be interesting to see.

Carl Cornwell

In 18 days, Jonathan U should have walked out of that hospital.

Robert Brusca

It's like an old Jonathan Winters movie - 'The Russians aren't coming! The Russians aren't coming.' And they'll probably never be here.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Jonathan Franzen seems like the grumpiest guy, and he doesn't seem to like much of anything, so I really don't care what he has to say.

Richard Bach

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

Robert Freeman

She's going to be wearing this in other venues all over the world,

Glenn Close

I don't like public venues. I never know what to wear.

Jon Favreau

Comic Con has become a very relevant venue for all films.

Gene Simmons

The venue has to know what it's buying.