Quotes tagged ‘Las Vegas’

“When I first started going to balls it was all about drag queens who were interested in looking like Las Vegas showgirls, back pieces, tail pieces, feathers, beads and all that. But As the seventies rolled around the things started changing, it started coming down to just wanting to look like a gorg…”

— Jennie Livingston, Herself, Anji Xtravaganza, imdb.com

“Never sleep with the boss's daughter. Especially if the boss is Ed Deline, former head of CIA Counter Intelligence and the greatest security man Vegas has ever seen.”

— Gary Scott Thompson, Danny McCoy, Josh Duhamel, imdb.com

“Michael: My credit good enough to buy you out? Moe Greene: Buy me out? [Fredo laughs nervously] Michael: The hotel, the casino. The Corleone Family wants to buy you out. Moe Greene: The Corleone Family wants to buy me out? No, I buy you out, you don't buy me out. Michael: Your casino loses money, ma…”

— Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Corleone, Al Pacino, imdb.com

“Mike Baxter: Honey, what's the harm in letting her try out? Vanessa Baxter: Really, honey? A teen model? You want her hanging out in Vegas with Russian mobsters and, uh, David Spade? Mike Baxter: I absolutely do not want that!”

— Eben Russell, Mike Baxter, Tim Allen, imdb.com

“The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.”

— Don Rickles, esquire.com

“Your words can't hurt me. Not here. Uh-uh. Not in the most majestic city in the world. God, where the Eiffel Tower is a stone's throw from a Venetian gondola.”

— David Walpert, Doug Guggenheim, Josh Lawson, imdb.com

“If Salvador Dali was hired to design a city, that’s what Las Vegas looks like to me.”

— Steven Wright, lasvegasmagazine.com

“Kids, get a change of clothes and a baseball bat. Because we're going to Vegas!”

— Sjoux Doanham, Al Bundy, Ed O'Neill, imdb.com

“If I wanna go to Vegas in the middle of the night, then that’s just what I’ll do.”

— Dan Bilzerian, twitter.com

“Was bored in LA, told pilots to fire up my Jet, headed to Vegas.”

— Dan Bilzerian, twitter.com

“You're like a pathetic gambler. You're one of those losers in Las Vegas who keeps thinking he's gonna come up with a way to win at blackjack.”

— Larry David, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here....We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.”

— Meyer Lansky, books.google.com

“I remember when I was a struggling comic appearing for the first time in Las Vegas. Don Rickles came in to watch the new guy. Afterward, he came backstage, and I asked him if he thought I was funny. He said, ‘You know when you're funny. You don't have to ask.’ And he was right.”

— Garry Shandling, esquire.com