Las Vegas Quotes

For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

I was just in Las Vegas, where prostitution is legal. Which is a relief because I live in Los Angeles, where it is mandatory.

In Las Vegas, nothing ends very well.

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

If what happens in Las Vegas is supposed to stay in Las Vegas, how did Harry Reid get out?

[On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city where vices become virtues, become what everyone is here to do.

I think that people who have Vegas throat are people who sing from their throats only.

There's just no quiet in Vegas.

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

I love performing in Las Vegas.

I have always loved Las Vegas. It's a traditional place for lounge comics to perform, and I love that.

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.

If an original piece of wardrobe came up from Star Wars, I'd probably spend a lot of money on it.

I have a very warm spot in my heart for Vegas.

I like Vegas for its spontaneity.

I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.

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.

You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.

I use very few muscles at the best of times.

Las Vegas was such a teeny, tiny place.

Man, I really like Vegas.

After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.

Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.

No, there are some location shoots in Vegas, maybe four trips a year. It's shot in Santa Clarita, CA.

Everytime I go to Vegas, I seem to incur some kind of fine.

I work a lot, and not just in Las Vegas.

Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!

Las Vegas was and is a hard town that will make you pay for your inability to restrain your desires.... If you have a weakness, Las Vegas will punish you.

If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.

I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.

I had a great time doing Vegas. It's just that it takes a lot of time.

Guests love to be 'wowed' in Las Vegas. They enjoy and embrace new tastes, new flavors, and they come to expect the unexpected in Las Vegas.

["Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"] is a very hard book to translate to film because there's so much interior monologue. The what if factor. I tried to write it cinematically and let the dialogue carry it but I forgot about the interior monologue. It's kind of hard to show what's going on in the head. I think we should do it like a documentary.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.

I come home every weekend and I still can't believe I represent Las Vegas in Congress. It's such a kick.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Las Vegas: It was not cafe society, it was Nescafe society

The guys have a lot of good cars built up. We're going to do some more testing before we go back to Las Vegas and try to win at Vegas again. We need to get off to a quick start.

Las Vegas is the boxing capital. During a Floyd Mayweather fight weekend, you can shop, party, stay out late and do anything you want. The city of Las Vegas has everything.

A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.

The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: 'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it.

I'm really fascinated by how the mob ethos permeates places like Las Vegas and Chicago. I have the book set in Las Vegas and Chicago for pretty specific reasons, some of which are that in both cases the mob history has become a tourist attraction - I'm actually doing a book signing in Las Vegas at The Mob Museum, which I am positively giddy about! - and I find that especially unusual. If you don't call these people "the Mafia" they're just a band of psychopaths killing people for profoundly dumb reasons.

Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers.

I didn't much like Las Vegas. The noise of the place and the whole 24-hour, 'let's play the slot machines all night' culture of the place just left me cold.

I pride myself on never using a cuss word on stage. Ever. I headline in Las Vegas every year, and this summer I am performing on an Alaskan cruise. Not too many comedians can pull that off. Funny thing is, my show doesn't change for Vegas.

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

Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.

My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.