Las Vegas Quotes

• If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time.

  Tony Curtis

  Vegas, Know How, Knows

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• The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Vegas, Fear And Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

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• Marriage is a big deal, but who's to say I'm not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it's like for a minute?

  Lindsay Lohan

  Vegas, Married, Minutes

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

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Love, Queens, Vegas

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• In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

  Steven Wright

  Men, Gambling, Numbers

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

  Sigourney Weaver

  Vegas, Wanted, My Own

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

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Vegas, Drug, Fear And Loathing

  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas pt. 1 (1971)

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• They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day.

  Johnny Vegas

  Dreamer, Looks, London

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• I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough.

  Johnny Vegas

  Birthday, Party, Kids

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• Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.

  Wayne Newton

  Vegas, Together, Done

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• There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there

  Michael Richards

  Country, Vegas, New Orleans

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

  Juice Newton

  Vegas

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• Hatred is not what Las Vegas is about.

  Oscar Goodman

  Vegas, Hatred, Zero Tolerance

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

  Artie Lange

  Vegas, Kind, Fine

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• Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Memories, Knowing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Moon, Night, Vegas

  Norman Mailer (2013). “An American Dream: A Novel”, p.256, Random House

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• 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

  Vegas, Judging, Unions

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie & Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November 1, 1997.

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

  Artie Lange

  Christian, Drinking, Weekend

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

  Scott Caan

  Mean, Vegas, Gambling

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

  George Eads

  Years, Vegas, Four

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• Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse.

  Merv Griffin

  Vegas, Newton, Wayne

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• I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Wedding, Vegas, Offering

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• What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas - except the drone.

  Mort Sahl

  Hangover, Sin City, Drones

  Twitter post from Apr 14, 2011

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• Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it to the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money.

  Jonathan Clements

  Running, Retirement, Vacation

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

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Vegas, Mirages

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