Christian Louboutin Quotes

When you're surrounded by feathers and sequins and ridiculous Lycra outfits, it's impossible not to have a smile on your face.

I'm a showgirl, as you can tell. I'm ever ready.

The big advantage to playing the Venetian in Las Vegas - where it's a beautiful theater - is that unlike other places, even many other nice venues, I can do a set and lighting cues, I can put on a real show. I can dress up, wear a tux.

Some days, I just love the physical space of the theater. I love theaters; they are heartbreakingly beautiful to me.

Burlesque girls were alchemists. They were steel-tough performers who were willing to use kitchens as dressing rooms, haul their costume bags through the snow, and go into debt over fake diamonds, all for the five minutes onstage when they were goddesses.

I like 'Strictly' because it is warm, glamourous, and brings families together.

Drag Race' is a competition.

I never thought about the gayness. Liberace just looked like he was having so much fun. And that whole idea of talking directly to the audience, you just went along with him. He made you happy. And he's finally getting acknowledged for all the Elton John, Lady Gaga, Madonna theatrics now that people are looking at his old costumes.

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

Being a rock star is being a rock star, I don't need to go into the details. What would you do if you were a rock star?

I loved acting. I didn’t particularly like being a movie star.

When I use weed creatively, I'm much better at drawing or making something or playing music. But what I do for a living is mostly performing as an actor or writing, and for those things I need to have my faculties sharp.

There has never been a painting that was more beautiful than nature. The model does not unfold herself to you, you must rise to her. She should be the inspiration for your painting. No man has ever over-appreciated a human being.

You've always got to have an imagination in the game we're in but it explodes on this. You get to try the costumes on before you start and feel the weight of them, which is great. But then you're opposite some of the greatest actors in the world and away you go. You find your imagination takes over without you really even thinking about it.

Life is a cabaret, old chum! Come to the Cabaret.

I really do think that if you're doing your job right, you're never gonna be what the other actor was, but you can be influenced by his intelligence and his choices.

Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

Being an artist is celebrating life.

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

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.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down.

Nothing can replace the excitement, the magic, and yes the glamour of a Ziegfeld show.