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Quotes About Cabaret

I grew up listening to cabaret. At 7 and 8 years old, I was already singing like a club performer.
~ Annaleigh Ashford
I'm one of the most popular cabaret performers, and I don't sing a note. And nobody expects me to sing.
~ Leslie Jordan
I've never done a musical, and I don't think I could do one, but I would love to play Sally Bowles in 'Cabaret.'
~ Lydia Leonard
I love 'Cabaret' and 'George M!' They're both incredible as far as I'm concerned.
~ Joel Grey
[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.
~ David Bowie
I'm actually a huge fan of hip-hop. I like hip-hop music. I love rap. I like cabaret music, as well. I just love live music and bands.
~ Britney Spears
I was a born club comic. Radio and TV and stage were fine, but I found my real home in cabaret.
~ Bob Monkhouse
In the early days of the Libertines, we used to put on Arcadian cabaret nights. There'd be some girl climbing out of an egg; we'd try and get a couple of mates to tell a few jokes, performance poets, and then we'd play in the middle of it all. More people were on stage than in the crowd.
~ Pete Doherty
'Cabaret' was one of the first pieces of musical theater I saw that showed the possibilities of what musical theater can do.
~ Tom Kitt
I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
~ Karen Elson
I just love to dance and 'Cabaret' seemed like an opportunity where I could explore that. I wanted to take a chance and see if people will accept me in this kind of role, if what is expected of other women is expected of me. Or maybe it's for shock value.
~ Richa Chadha
I don't do so much acting work now, as there aren't the parts except for 'Tango'. So if I didn't have the cabaret work, I don't know what I would be doing.
~ Anne Reid
Pentru unii era prea mult. Paul Nikolaus, artist de cabaret specializat în numere cu subiecte politice la faimosul club Kadeko din Berlin... s-a refugiat la Lucerna, unde s-a sinucis pe 20 martie 1933. "Iat?, nu mai glumesc", a scris...
~ Richard J. Evans
We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success.
~ Neil Innes
I don't know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn't even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.
~ Zooey Deschanel
There was a cabaret, and there was a master of ceremonies... and there was a city called Berlin, in a country called Germany...and it was the end of the world.
~ Joe Masteroff
Cabaret is a great format. All you have to do is sing and be funny sporadically.
~ Julie Klausner
I loved 'Cabaret.' I loved what it had to say and the whole style and brilliance of the book. It was my first time performing Fred Ebb and John Kander's work. They took risks. Even when their shows are fun and funny, they are about very serious issues.
~ Ann Reinking
Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.
~ Laura Osnes
I want to do good films. It is not that I have any problem doing commercial roles, with all the glitter. I am doing 'Cabaret.' It is very glamourous.
~ Richa Chadha
A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit of the words. And a cabaret song gives the singer room to act, more even than an opera singer.
~ James Fenton
Era un cabaret de fama mundial, donde se habían aburrido los hombres más célebres de Europa y América.
~ Enrique Jardiel Poncela
I've always been a cabaret-vaudeville artist - an hourlong cabaret and a floor show in a hotel - somebody like that. That's my main forte.
~ Kenny Baker
Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and comedians. You'd go in and Tom Jones might be singing, or Shirley Bassey or Engelbert Humperdinck.
~ Francis Lee