Quotes About Vegas

#1. But I came to see that Las Vegas is not a freak but is, instead, deeply integrated with the rest of the country, and the world beyond. It is symptom, mirror, metaphor.

Timothy O'Grady

#2. Well, is true. I did know. Because if possible to paint fakes that look like that? Las Vegas would be the most beautiful city in the history of earth!

Donna Tartt

#3. The driver asked me where I wanted to go; I wanted to say Las Vegas but I didn't think that would go over very well

Penny Reid

#4. Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.

Walter Wykes

#5. I do need to explore my faith, because it has got lost over the years and it has been kind of tainted through experience. But I also know it's enriched my life, my dad being a Catholic.

Johnny Vegas

#6. I think I'm realising more and more that I've got a job to do and I can't be doing the big nights out and working to my full potential the next day. I feel much better for it.

Johnny Vegas

#7. I love San Francisco; it's very hard to compete with San Francisco when it comes to availability of product, but one thing you can't replace about Las Vegas or Miami is people are walking in the door and they want to have a good time.

Michael Mina

#8. An intruder broke into Mike Tyson's hotel room in Las Vegas while he was sleeping but got out before Tyson could get to him. I don't know what's scarier. Having someone breaking into your room while you're sleeping or breaking into someone else's room and finding out the guy is Mike Tyson.

Jay Leno

#9. What happens in Vegas, I'm telling everyone.

Dane Cook

#10. I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

Otis Blackwell

#11. Yeah, Vegas is the number one place to go. Vegas is Sin City. It really gives you a feeling of looseness and anything can go.

James Belushi

#12. I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.

Dennis Rodman

#13. I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.

Connie Stevens

#14. We are the Las Vegas of spirituality

Sanne Wurzer

#15. I've played a lot in Las Vegas in my life.

Julio Iglesias

#16. You know, I run the Vegas Deluxe website and that really is 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And we have more stars going through this city with shows. We have more disc jockeys playing in nightclubs here, we have more parties, more of everything than any other city in the world. So it's non-stop.

Robin Leach

#17. Free-flowing booze consumed by many Las Vegas visitors pours fuel on the asshole fire.

Tim Dressen

#18. Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.

Concha Buika

#19. Trump tried to book Penn & Teller once in Vegas at one of his casinos, but we were priced out of his budget.

Penn Jillette

#20. The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanni

#21. I love Vegas. It's like going to Disneyland.

Vanessa Marcil

#22. 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.

Norm Crosby

#23. You see, John, unless you reduce your needs, you will never be fulfilled. You will always be like that gambler in Las Vegas, staying at the roulette wheel for 'just one more spin' in the hope that your lucky number will come up. You will always want more than you have. How can you ever be happy?

Robin S. Sharma

#24. In 'Honeymoon in Vegas,' after Nicolas Cage tells his fiancee that he's given her away to pay for his gambling debts, she gets into a tizzy as if she were a 6-year-old. I couldn't believe it.

Allison Anders

#25. I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower - then plummets back down. I ride it over and over; it's exhilarating.

Drew Barrymore

#26. Even with Las Vegas giddy around me I felt as alone as Robinson Crusoe.

Robert A. Heinlein

#27. In 2009, I began creating 'Waterworks' with the new vernacular coming from the 'Signs of Life' work in Las Vegas.

John Van Hamersveld

#28. Capitalism is a warrior culture, a hierarchical mode, and Las Vegas is its epitome.

Hal Rothman

#29. I look at Las Vegas, and I see the absolute best of what we are as Americans, and I see the absolute worst, in the same city.

Joe Carnahan

#30. I had a massive amount of self-belief when I did stand-up.

Johnny Vegas

#31. George Klein says that Elvis had five real friends outside of his circle, and I was blessed to be one of them. I spent a lot of time with Elvis in Vegas and at Graceland.

Bill Medley

#32. I've always been looking for other people's approval.

Johnny Vegas

#33. In a city of illusion, where change is what the city does, it's no wonder Las Vegas is the court of last resort, the last place to start over, to reinvent yourself in the same way that the city does, time after time. For some it works; for some it doesn't, but they keep coming and trying.

Hal Rothman

#34. In credits, I'm 'Michael' sometimes now, but people know you as something, so there's no point fighting it. 'Squiggle,' you'll always be 'Prince,' and 'The Rock,' just accept it. I want to move on, but not that much. So I'm still known as 'Johnny Vegas.'

Johnny Vegas

#35. No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

Ralph Nader

#36. It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

Johnny Vegas

#37. I know many people within Anonymous; I was the keynote speaker at Defcon in Las Vegas and got a standing ovation.

John McAfee

#38. If Yucca Mountain had not been designated as a dumpsite for radioactive waste in 1987, it might easily have become a scenic overlook on the long drive between Tonopah and Las Vegas.

Wil S. Hylton

#39. I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up.

Johnny Vegas

#40. All right," I said. "Let's show these Seattle assholes how we do things in Vegas. Jennifer?" She held up the detonator. I nodded. "Light 'em up!" 41. One click of the detonator, so fast her fingers blurred, and the alley erupted in a blast of crumpled metal and flame.

Craig Schaefer

#41. As I've gotten older, I've wanted to represent Las Vegas more. Represent the Southwest. It's a magical place. The desert. I do understand people's criticisms, but it's a magical place and a beautiful city, even though there are a lot of things that are wrong with it.

Brandon Flowers

#42. Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.

Thomas Sowell

#43. And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience.

Davy Jones

#44. The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say No and take the consequences.

Robert Anton Wilson

#45. I don't do the same food in Tokyo that I do in Vegas and vice versa. If I did that, two weeks later I would have no customers.

Alain Ducasse

#46. I have never taken a road trip. Unless you count Los Angeles to Vegas.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

#47. I think Vegas is the answer for pregnant people because of insomnia. It's open all the time and you go down and play your silly slots.

Selma Blair

#48. Many a man who goes to Las Vegas to get away from it all soon finds that Las Vegas gets it all away from him.

Evan Esar

#49. The dragons live in the casino?
Tee's eyes widened and alarm coursed through her.
My God, it's like the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Susannah Scott

#50. You can take the girl out of Vegas, but you can't take the Vegas out of the girl.

Charisma Carpenter

#51. No. I do believe in them. I just think they're absentee landlords. Right now, they're probably hanging out somewhere in Las Vegas, screwing showgirls and cheating at poker.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#52. I love heavy music, but you see, I had fallen in love with a radio station in Vegas that played nothing but Eighties music. That had a real profound impact on me.

Dave Keuning

#53. I grew up in Denver, Colorado. After high school I went to Vegas.

Paul Taylor

#54. The thing about Vegas is, I don't have to fly anywhere, and that really helps. It means I stay in one place for three weeks at a time instead of flying backwards and forwards.

Elton John

#55. I mean, if you're coming to Vegas, why not stay in a pyramid?" "You can't fault that logic,

Richelle Mead

#56. Las Vegas, the most expensive toilet in the world that still can't flush.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

#57. Jerkiness isn't as respectable as it used to be, not even in L.A. Which is why they had to build Vegas.

Ross Macdonald

#58. Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced to really examine things.

Johnny Vegas

#59. I tried to work with a record label; I tried to work with a booking agency, variety shows. I went to Vegas. I just tried everything I could think of, and nothing took. No one thought there was a place for my style and my music; it was just too different.

Lindsey Stirling

#60. My agent once said, 'You're not very driven.' And it's true. I'm not the type to ring up and go, 'Get me this part!'

Johnny Vegas

#61. There's lots of stuff about me being a fan of Cliff but not being gay. Which suggests that he is, but he's not. Anyway, this is Channel 4, let their lawyers sort it out.

Johnny Vegas

#62. The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high.

Norman Mailer

#63. You people voted for Hubert Humphrey and killed Jesus!

Hunter S. Thompson

#64. Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and every once in a while there's some juicy little tidbit of reward, like the three quarters that pop down on a one-armed bandit. And that keeps you coming back for more.

Douglas Rushkoff

#65. In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages.

Daniel Boulud

#66. I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody.

Liam Neeson

#67. Las Vegas has the type of audience - and they haven't changed since my father's days - they're still boring and bored. And there's only that handful of artists that they really enjoy and know how to respond to.

Natalie Cole

#68. Vegas is purposefully constructed as a self-enclosed and isolated biosphere, sort of what a recreational colony built on the moon might be like.

Marc Cooper

#69. Oh, it's a beautiful day, it's an elegant, graceful day, and I'm sailing down the Strip in glamorous Las Vegas, on my motor scooter, in company with a certified illegal prostitute who loves poetry and remembers it. Sonofabitch, I'm a real writer! I used to worry about it, but no more. Life is good.

Peter S. Beagle

#70. There are three capitals of entertainment in the world: Las Vegas, New York and London. So far the only one I truly conquered is Vegas. New York and London are still on my checklist.

Guy Laliberte

#71. Las Vegas is a society of armed masturbators/gambling is the kicker here/sex is extra/weird trip for high rollers ... house-whores for winners, hand jobs for the bad luck crowd.

Hunter S. Thompson

#72. The first thing he noticed was that Las Vegas seemed to have invented a new school of functional architecture, 'The Gilded Mousetrap School' he thought it might be called, whose main purpose was to channel the customer-mouse into the central gambling trap whether he wanted the cheese or not.

Ian Fleming

#73. She was screwed by the fates. Cursed with a mate she wanted but couldn't have.

Susannah Scott

#74. I was booked into the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas with three other comedians. We all were using the Riviera in-house shampoo, so we all had equal shine and bounce.

Mitch Hedberg

#75. Never try to be witty with U.S. airport officials. It's always lost on them and you'll find yourself being put back on the plane.

Johnny Vegas

#76. 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.

John O'Hurley

#77. I mean, what do you do in Las Vegas? You gamble - and you go to strip clubs.

Scott Caan

#78. In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game.

John Ensign

#79. You lit me up like Vegas

Joss Stirling

#80. You are still a spoiled rotten brat, Richie," Seth said to Vegas, with no emotion on his face. "But I'm not going to let anyone hurt you ...

Charlie Fey

#81. KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.

Carlos Santana

#82. A lot of people these days are too ambitious; their sights are set too high at the start and they end up diving in too deep, quitting their day job too soon. They move to Vegas or wherever, make an all-or-nothing commitment before they're ready, and burn out.

Phil Ivey

#83. I USED to cross the United States in my automobile every summer, trying to make it to the Pacific Ocean. But, for various reasons, I would always get stuck somewhere - usually in Las Vegas.

Richard Feynman

#84. Nevada's one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you.

Drew Carey

#85. I love Las Vegas. I like that Las Vegas has everything. Everything and anything you want to do, you can do in Las Vegas.

Drew Carey

#86. A hot, dry breeze greeted the Swensen sisters and their mother when they emerged from the air-conditioned interior of McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.

Joanne Fluke

#87. I don't want to demonise 'Johnny.' I was really proud of what he achieved. Especially within stand-up. He was quite a unique voice. I will always possibly be trading off 'Johnny's name, but there's a lot more things that I'm able to do now - the strengths that 'Michael' can bring to it.

Johnny Vegas

#88. There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.

Johnny Vegas

#89. I saw my true power. The darkest power. The greatest power. ~Jaime Vegas

Kelley Armstrong

#90. I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That, to me, is Heaven, being out in nature, taking pictures of the wildlife.

B.B. King

#91. I'm a Sagittarian, see, I can't be fenced in. I been living in Las Vegas, greatest city in the world. I look out my window for 100 miles. In Vegas, there's nothing to do but gamble, drink or have sex. I have two of 'em.

Redd Foxx

#92. He loved her lips. He could imagine them wrapped around his cock even now., leaving a red circle...a brand. A red brand on his cock.

Susannah Scott

#93. I love Las Vegas because it's the one city less classy than Los Angeles.

J. Richard Singleton

#94. People are always asking, 'Where does Michael Pennington end and Johnny Vegas begin,' and you're going, 'It's not like that: it's blurred right across.'

Johnny Vegas

#95. Being behind the camera is where I feel comfortable. I've found something that I feel I, as 'Michael,' can be as confident in as 'Johnny' was on the stage. It's great being part of the creative process. You're right at the start of an idea, and you get to see it all the way through till the end.

Johnny Vegas

#96. Everyone is a bender away from oblivion.

Jonathan Heatt

#97. I'd rather be in Las Vegas 104 degrees than New York 90 degrees, you know why? Legalized prostitution. In any weather that takes the edge off.

Ray Romano

#98. I found popularity through self-destruction, and that can be quite addictive.

Johnny Vegas

#99. I'd love to do a show in Vegas with drag queens. The tackier the better.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#100. I would like to expand my brand to include destinations in Vegas and also become an entertainment news correspondent.

Holly Madison