Quotes About Performance

Bob's work gleaned from hoofing, from vaudeville, from ballet.

I do some very high energy comedy, vaudeville, music hall stuff, and people who've seen my work on camera, on TV and movies, would not really know that.

My best memories growing up are of putting on musicals with my mom and dad, Both of them are real hams; it was like vaudeville in East Hampton.

I do not like vaudeville, but what can I do? It likes me.

If I was on Broadway, I would want to do anything Vaudeville or a biopic.

Musicals spring forth from minstrelsy, vaudeville, melodramas; it was all these things combined to create the form.

Magic has both feet planted in cheap vaudeville and childish posturing; in dishonesty and therefore not in art.

If you look at vaudeville in theaters vamping between acts, it was always jokes written and banter in the moment.

I'm a fan of old vaudeville theaters.

She said I did good and I think she was happy with what I did. She just wants me to get my higher Start Value vault, which I'll be competing at Trials and, hopefully, the Olympics.

Floor exercise, the longest you run is two or three steps. In the vault, it's not a whole lot more than that.

The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved.

A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.

Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but then you have the bars after it and you have to be more sedate for that.

I focus more on bars and beam just because those are my strongest events, and I just try and maintain whatever I can do on floor and vault. I'm consistently training on all events.

Unless you're a vegan freak of nature like Tony Gonzalez, I don't think you can play sports much past your early 30s.

A lot of people thought you couldn't be a top-level athlete as a vegan, but people like Mac Danzig and Jake Shields are proving that's wrong. And it's better for me as a performer.

Even before I went vegan, in terms of cutting out red meat, my tendinitis and recovery after games was vastly improved.

I'm vegan, Buddhist, minimalist, an actor. I'm very friendly, though. If I wasn't I think it would be easier to be, like, 'You're a bit of a knob.'

I met Elvis first in Las Vegas. I think I was appearing with Tom Jones and he came backstage to say hello to Tom or we went to his dressing room to say hello.

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

I did 'Rock of Ages' when it was in both L.A. and Vegas, playing the lead, Drew.