Quotes About Vegas

I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It's a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end of the world per se, but you can certainly see it from there.

I've learned a lot about putting a show up in Vegas. You can't just all of a sudden put up a show here and do well. Nobody does.

I would love to have gone there, fight at Madison Square Garden or a casino in Las Vegas, but there are no American heavyweights now who can pose a challenge to me.

I played Vegas at the age of 16 years old, in 1959.

I don't drink much anymore, but when I traveled with Frank Sinatra, God rest his soul, I used to drink like I could do it. He made it a test. In Vegas, the Rat Pack, which I was a little part of, drank all night and slept most of the day. Then, about 5 o'clock, we'd meet in the hotel steam room, lock the door, and steam our brains out.

It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown.

When most people think about Nevada, they often instantly associate us with the glitz and glamour of the Las Vegas Strip.

My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.

I like fighting in Las Vegas.

I personally knew and worked with Sammy Davis, Jr. Sammy hired me to open for him at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas when I was a 19-year-old standup comedian, and that's where my fascination with his incredible story began.

I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.

I love heavy music, but you see, I had fallen in love with a radio station in Vegas that played nothing but Eighties music. That had a real profound impact on me.

I grew up in Denver, Colorado. After high school I went to Vegas.

Being from Iowa, I can tell you that Vegas is not normal.

It's weird to think I'm in a show in Vegas with my name in lights. It's crazy, like a dream.

Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years.

Even Vegas around two o'clock in the morning isn't as busy as here. It's always busy in Times Square, not that we've been out at two in the morning. That's what we hear.

I came to Vegas because I wanted to, not because I thought it could help my career. I didn't even know they had comedy clubs here.

When I was in grad school, I wrote one early story that was Vegas, and then I stayed away from it. I was trying to expand and do different things. I knew I would write about it, but I stayed away for as long as I could.

I'm not a crazy Vegas guy. I'm not a gambler.

The times I've had in Vegas have been very memorable and very strange. I find it to be a weird, kind of hyper-reality city... everybody I've met who is from there is usually really interesting.

I'd love to do a show in Vegas with drag queens. The tackier the better.

Vegas represents the idea of America I had as a kid. The big cars, the pretty girls; everything is possible in Vegas.

I started a big part of my career in Vegas.