Famous Quotes & Sayings

Esme Bianco

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

Baby Doe

It doesn't matter what size or shape you are. Burlesque is about feeling positive about who you are, about knowing how to shake what you have and being proud of it.

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.

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.

Baby Doe

People love burlesque today because it incorporates all the old-school glamour, satire and highlights the female form -- it's something that many women can actually see themselves doing.

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.

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.

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.

Yael Grobglas

I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.

Colm Meaney

I love doing comedy. You don't get many good comedy scripts. They're rare. But, I do love playing comedy. Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it's very human.

Emma Roberts

I'd love to do a comedy like 'Bridesmaids;' I think that would be so fun. I would play the Kristen Wiig character.

Colin Firth

Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.

Rutina Wesley

I'd like to do a romantic comedy like 'Notting Hill,' which is one of my favorite movies.

Johnny Depp

Tim and I have known each other for 15 years, so when we go back to doing a film every few years, it's like going home again. He walks this fine line between darkness and comedy like nobody else.

Randa Haines

I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.

Jason Wiles

I would love to do a comedy, but comedy probably in the sense of a dark comedy like 'Californication,' that sort of thing. Yeah, sure, I think I'm funny.

Adam Sandler

My comedy is different every time I do it.

Gore Vidal

Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.

Nancy Keenan

The American public deserves answers. Her record is so thin we don't know anything about her.

Steve Downie

That was huge by Dawson. He stepped up for this team. He deserves it because he works so hard for us.

Bill Sexton

Tyler's record speaks for itself. He now has 110 wins and stands in third place on our all-time list. He's a good, hard worker and really deserves this.

Craig Kelly

You are innocent until proven guilty. And I think Ernie deserves the same consideration regardless of whether he's a politician or a janitor in the street.

Christian Fauria

You just feel better when he's out there. He never really misses practices. He's never out of position. He's a force to be reckoned with. ... I think he deserves everything he gets.

Glenn Howard

I'm so happy for Russ. He deserves it.

Scott Macartney

I'm so excited for him. I'm his room-mate here. He deserves it, he skied great today.

Landon Donovan

I'm stunned, impressed and extremely happy for him. He deserves his reward.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

If I'd gone into taekwondo, I'd probably have won several Olympic medals.

Jeff Joerres

The outplacement industry has gone through much more of a severe downturn than anyone, including us, would have anticipated.

David Stern

We couldn't get enough Jeremy Lin material in the NBA store fast enough. And when we did, it was just gone in minutes.

Feist

Since I was 19, I've always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I'll be lucky and there'll be a reason to go somewhere tropical for a while.

Felicity Kendal

I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.

Aron Ralston

You'll never find your limits until you've gone too far.

Mike Koester

That would have tied it up. Whatever could have gone wrong did.

Kieren Fallon

That was tremendous. A lot of hard work has gone into this.He really picked up. I hoped I hadn't gone too soon as it was his first run of the season,

Stevie Wonder

We need to have more respect for each other, ... Things have just gone really crazy, out of control. ... We're on a very weird kind of cycle.

Will Chase

I loved being on stage with heroes of mine, like Gregg Edelman and Jimmy Walton, and the lovely Chita Rivera and Stephanie J. Block.

Don Reed

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

Ron Beard

Jimmy was in the groove. He looked unstoppable.

Paul Weller

Led Zeppelin would never have reformed if he or Jimmy Page were bald.

Leslie Hope

When I got off '24,' pretty soon after that I did a movie that took place in the '70s, this movie with Jimmy Caan and Gena Rowlands, and I needed to kind of have that '70s pouffy housewife hair.

Todd Bodine

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

Shane Victorino

I saw Jimmy keep shuffling around there. That was a big play.

Quin Snyder

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

Jim Sullivan

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

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.

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.

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.

Dean Ryan

There were a lot of things we were unhappy about on the pitch. Jonathan Kaplan is a world-class referee but the Premiership is different. To come in on a one-off was unfair - for him and for us.

John Murphy

I don't think there's going to be any major changes. As president, Jonathan was pretty much running all the operations of the company. Scott was working on strategy and longer-term vision.

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.

Carl Cornwell

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

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,

Gene Simmons

The venue has to know what it's buying.

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.