Suzi Quatro Quotes

I grew up with music hall and revue and was used to filling in the little gaps here and there to get bigger audience reaction.

Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.

I've always wanted to do a cabaret.

I want to be one of those old-fashioned entertainers.

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.

You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque.

My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working.

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.

I aim to please. I'm nothing if not a vaudevillian.

When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.

I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, all those guys. Hilarious. I love the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movies, and Abbott & Costello. My television influences were 'Monty Python's Flying Circus,' 'Benny Hill,' and 'Hee Haw.'

Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.

All those Bob Hope specials made me cringe when I was a kid.

I'm a fan of old vaudeville theaters.

I've always wanted to do, oddly enough, a live variety show, but only with a live audience.

My great-grandfather was a variety hall comedian called Billy Mack.

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

You might be feeling sick or a little down, but the second you hit the stage and hear the crowd, you're ready to perform. That's what a true performer is.

I do an act, and I've been doing an act for 50 years. I do a variety show, which is a musical comedy show. I do comedy, and I do singing, Broadway show tunes and different songs that I like. Been doing it for many, many years.

The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.

I'm living in a world that was created a hundred years ago with vaudeville and people traveling around and medicine shows and things and making live music on stage and I'm still doing that. I like it that way. I like to present something to people that's had 40 years of being honed and perfected. It's something that you're not going to find with an artist who's been around for two or three years, or even ten years.

I was Boots The Monkey in 'Dora The Explorer Live Dora's Pirate Adventure,' and it was the greatest!

Probably the most fun thing we do in our lives is getting up on stage.

I love every time that I get to be on a stage with Halsey. She's so incredible.

I love being able to perform in the ring in front of people, and that's the greatest feeling in the world.