Quotes About Cabaret

#1. I would totally, if Alan Cumming is tired of doing Cabaret, I'd be like, 'I'll do it tonight.' I would have such a good time doing that.

Billy Magnussen

#2. I grew up listening to cabaret. At 7 and 8 years old, I was already singing like a club performer,

Annaleigh Ashford

#3. I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It was quite absurd.

Peter Dinklage

#4. [David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.

David Bowie

#5. Life isn't a cabaret. It's a dive bar.

Woody Paige

#6. I'm actually a huge fan of hip-hop. I like hip-hop music. I love rap. I like cabaret music, as well. I just love live music and bands.

Britney Spears

#7. I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.

Christian Louboutin

#8. Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music.

John Lithgow

#9. Growing up, I was very conservative in my wardrobe, so when I first joined the Pussycat Dolls, the biggest challenge was wearing those cabaret costumes. I didn't feel comfortable showing my body so much, showing my legs and butt, chest and midriff.

Nicole Scherzinger

#10. I don't know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn't even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.

Zooey Deschanel

#11. If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. The most impact you can have while asking them to re-listen to a song is if it's a song they know very well.

Alan Cumming

#12. It's nice to watch television but it's even nicer when you've got a drink in your hand,' Gregory Ratcliffe, a Birmingham shopkeeper, told Reynolds News. 'Makes it more intimate somehow. Gives you the feeling that you're in a posh cabaret.

David Kynaston

#13. I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.

Rita Coolidge

#14. I sing songs from the theater and pop songs. When I say 'pop songs,' I mean from the 90's. And I tell jokes. So it's sort of a stand up show meets a concert - not your traditional lounging across a piano cabaret show. It's much looser.

Laura Benanti

#15. This is astounding, amazing, so incredibly thrilling. Only today a world travelling cabaret performing drag queen took me out for lunch and named me as his new best friend. The idea plunges my black and white world into a vibrant techni-colour rainbow.

L. H. Cosway

#16. There was a cabaret, and there was a master of ceremonies... and there was a city called Berlin, in a country called Germany...and it was the end of the world.

Joe Masteroff

#17. The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined.

Brooke Shields

#18. He'd actually done it! He leaned back into the microphone and whispered to the now silent cave: 'Come to the Cabaret!

Paul Cornell

#19. In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything until it is left with only the minimum indispensable garments: the repressive force.

Subcomandante Marcos

#20. How much do people really want to learn? I mean, some people get into a groove and they stay with it indefinitely. And what starts off as a great moment of explosive passion can end up as cabaret 25, 30 years later. It just depends on whether you go and find the right habitat to extend yourself.

Robert Plant

#21. Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the rolled-down stockings. They sort of referenced that in 'Cabaret,' when Liza Minnelli was singing 'Mein Herr,' and I love the way she looks in that scene.

Amy Heckerling

#22. I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.

Elton John

#23. I love deep cleavage on the foot. It reminds me of Berlin in 1930s, 'Cabaret.'

Christian Louboutin

#24. We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success.

Neil Innes

#25. For me, the most effective cabaret evenings have been some of the most personal ones, where the performer is comfortable enough to simply be themselves.

Malcolm Gets

#26. It's so easy in these cabaret venues to get earnest.

Ana Gasteyer

#27. As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott.

Laura Lippman

#28. Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical.

Julia Barr

#29. Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.

Faith Prince

#30. Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and comedians. You'd go in and Tom Jones might be singing, or Shirley Bassey or Engelbert Humperdinck.

Francis Lee

#31. You know, speaking from experience, I can tell you that there's no aphrodisiac more potent than Watergate-themed cabaret music.

Martin Short

#32. If I could live in a cabaret, I would. If I could live in 'Moulin Rouge,' I would.

Rita Ora

#33. I have an amazing 1930s dress I picked up in Toronto at Cabaret on Queen West. It's a red knee-length tea dress, and it's absolutely beautiful. It makes me happy every time I put it on.

Lindy Booth

#34. I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.

Eartha Kitt

#35. As touchy as cabaret performers and as stubborn as factory machinists ...

Tom Rachman

#36. What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play; Life is a cabaret, old chum, Come to the cabaret.

Fred Ebb

#37. I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that's where all that influence comes from.

Paloma Faith

#38. I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.

Karen Elson

#39. A church is in a bad way when it banishes laughter from the sanctuary and leaves it to the cabaret, the nightclub and the toastmasters.

Helmut Thielicke

#40. A one woman cabaret of emotional impressionism

Alexander Polinsky

#41. But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.

Moira Kelly

#42. A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit of the words. And a cabaret song gives the singer room to act, more even than an opera singer.

James Fenton

#43. Cabaret is a great format. All you have to do is sing and be funny sporadically.

Julie Klausner

#44. Every word that is spoken and sung here (the Cabaret Voltaire) represents at least this one thing: that this humiliating age has not succeeded in winning our respect.

Hugo Ball

#45. I've never done a musical, and I don't think I could do one, but I would love to play Sally Bowles in 'Cabaret.'

Lydia Leonard

#46. I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I would wither up and die in 'The Music Man.'

Denis O'Hare

#47. I always wanted to play Roxie Hart in Chicago and also Sally Bowles in Kander and Ebb's Cabaret, but I have a feeling I won't now! I've also always wanted to play Maria in The Sound of Music, but don't suppose I'll ever do that either!

Marti Webb

#48. My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natural addition to it.

Susan Egan

#49. I was a born club comic. Radio and TV and stage were fine, but I found my real home in cabaret.

Bob Monkhouse

#50. What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom relegated some poor yearning dope to a lavender ghetto of losers, self-deluders, and social rejects.

James Wolcott

#51. The spirit of punk-cabaret is that you fell that you can truly be all of who you are.

Brian Viglione

#52. It's fun! Just fun ... I don't think of it as a cabaret act per se, I call it more of a gig, if that makes any sense

Frances Ruffelle

#53. Can you pass me the slutty one, please?" I handed her the bottle of bright-red nail polish. "I think it's actually called Crimson Cabaret," I said. "Don't be a slut-shamer.

Robin Benway

#54. After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces from the bikinis designed for the cabaret performers of Folies Bergeres. I was so happy with them that it was only then that I sought out formal training in jewelry.

Paloma Picasso