Charles Bukowski
Poet, Novelist
"Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville."
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Vaudeville
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Tom Waits
Singer-songwriter, Actor
"George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved."
Steve Martin
Comedian, Actor, Writer
"I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it."
Elbert Hubbard
Writer, Publisher
"In God's great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner."
Alan King
Comedian, Actor
"Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it just a tremendous party."
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"Each couple is its own vaudeville act."
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