Vegas Quotes - page 7

Burnout comes easy in the high-pressure world of television, and when the opportunity arose to move to Las Vegas and bring my friends and star chefs to open their restaurants at the Venetian, I made the move here. (Robin Leach)
I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and then I left there to go to the University of Evansville where I majored in theatre. View quote
Rutina Wesley
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. View quote
Selma Blair
I come home every weekend and I still can't believe I represent Las Vegas in Congress. It's such a kick. View quote
Shelley Berkley
I've been married before, but I've never had my dream wedding in Vegas. I wanted to do it there because it's casual, quick, not religious and, most of all, very romantic. View quote
Sinead O'Connor
Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions. View quote
Todd Phillips
I cut a rap song once. It was a few years ago for my old show 'Buck Commander,' and it was a song called 'You're Short.' It was about my camera guy. We shot the video in Las Vegas, 'Ocean's Eleven' style! View quote
Willie Robertson
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. View quote
Wil S. Hylton
It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office. View quote
Paul Samuelson
[Mim, to Nelson, after discussing Annabelle's stepfather being dead] "More and more is dead, are you old enough to notice? Vegas is dead, the way it was. [...] Now it's herds. Herds and herds of Joe Nobodies. Bozos. The hoi pollio, running up credit-card debt. Gambling is legal in half the states so they've built these huge moron-catchers along the Strip, all the way to the airport. A Pyramid, the Eiffel Tower, Venice – it's all here, Nelson, all for the morons. It's depressing as hell." View quote
John Updike
I've played a lot in Las Vegas in my life. (Julio Iglesias)
I have always loved Las Vegas. It's a traditional place for lounge comics to perform, and I love that. View quote
Norm Macdonald
But Vegas is really my first home. View quote
David Copperfield (illusionist)
In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle, everyone's from Seattle. But in Vegas, you have six from Seattle, a bunch from L.A., some local Las Vegans and maybe a farmer from Iowa. In Vegas, you learn the ins and outs of holding a room because of that great spectrum of folks. View quote
Lewis Black
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. View quote
Tim Allen
For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
I don't really go out much at all. But there are times when I'm like, 'I gotta get out.' Then we go to Vegas, and we'll gamble. View quote
Jenny McCarthy
When one of Lisa's baby teeth fell out here, the tooth fairy left her 50 cents. Another tooth fell out when she was with her father in Las Vegas, and that tooth fairy left her 5. When I told Elvis that 50 cents would be more in line, he laughed. He knew I was not criticizing him how would Elvis Presley know the going rate for a tooth. View quote
Priscilla Presley
Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is. (Eddie Van Halen)
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. View quote
Elton John
Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark, The Aladdin, The Frontier, The Hacienda, The Stardust - all were imploded. View quote
Elayne Boosler
He walked around the Las Vegas casino incredulous at the spectacle before him: seven thousand people, all of whom seem delighted with the world as they found it. A society with deep, troubling economic problems had rigged itself to disguise those problems, and the chief beneficiaries of the deceit were its financial middlemen. How could this be? View quote
Michael Lewis (author)
My Vegas act is how I make my money. View quote
Rita Rudner