Burlesque Quotes

Burlesque Quote of the day

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.

A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.

It is a sin to be a mocker.

Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from work and sweat and respect for the craft.

Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there's something inherently funny about taking a pie in the face, under the right conditions.

Auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market, trading floor, theatre and burlesque... a lot of people are going to be making a lot of excuses or maintaining that they were never part of this.

Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.

Just the whole concept of burlesque, I've always been fascinated with it. I've always collected so many books about burlesque.

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.

Burlesque is beautiful: It's art, it's fun, it's done with a lot of comedy - an awful lot of big wink-wink and nudge-nudge.

I actually had a movie green lit at Disney the same week 'Burlesque' was green lit - a movie for Disney called 'Mash-Up', about a high school marching band.

I've been involved in burlesque for a really long time and I've always been really interested in burlesque, and I was writing musicals for different studios.