Irene Dunne Quotes

Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!

The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic.

Once I go on stage, the atmosphere is totally theatrical. The greater the illusion, the greater the intensity of the excitement it creates.

I love to entertain an audience.

I love performing in Las Vegas.

It's theater now, not politics.

My abiding childhood memory is watching my uncle perform to thousands in Madison Square Garden. He wore a white suit and came down from the ceiling on a rope, and the crowd went crazy.

Get your popcorn ready, 'cause I'm gonna put on a show.

There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

I think I'd like to be a lion tamer, actually. That - that would provide the most audience entertainment if something went really badly.

But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.

I started out in theatre, and there's no better feeling than the adrenaline of being on stage.

There's no business like show business.

Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.

That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls.

Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment.

I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.

I do my best creating on stage.

I really enjoy doing the live stuff.

The courts are as a stage, people love to see attractive players.

The theater is magical and addictive.

I love living on that stage. Without that, I'd die.

The showbiz world has to be manipulated to make it more interesting because most people's lives are boring.

I consider myself a showman, and I love magic, and I love art, and I love performance, and they're all separate.