When the housing market fell in Las Vegas, we got so many Rolex and Tag Heuer watches it was ridiculous.
But I’ll never forget my trip to Las Vegas. I’m a huge rollercoaster fan and we did the one at the Stratosphere, which curls around the hotel, and there’s one that dips out from the roof then comes back in. That was intense.
It was an absolute honour to fight in Vegas. Every fighter dreams of fighting at the MGM Grand. That’s where so many legends have fought before and so many legends will continue to fight.
Elvis Presley invited me to Las Vegas for one night but we got on so well that I stayed for three.
When people come to Vegas, they expect a show that’s over the top.
The thing I love about Vegas is there’s something for any type of mood you’re in and something for any kind of adventure you seek out.
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.
Blackpool is a hilarious place. It’s kind of like the Las Vegas of the U.K. It’s by the sea and there’s a lot of casinos and resorts.
There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
Sometimes I think I need to get crazy. Go to Vegas.
Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse.
While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.
‘Behind The Candelabra’ is an HBO movie. It’s the Liberace story. Michael Douglass and Matt Damon. I play a small part in it. I play a choreographer who introduces, brings Matt Damon to Las Vegas for the first time.
I love performing in Las Vegas.
I like Las Vegas because it kind of gives me a chance to gauge my material in front of a very diverse group of people. There are a lot of different people in the audience, and you can kind of get a barometer for how your material plays throughout the country.
I’ve earned some decent money, and bragging rights, and boxed on a Floyd Mayweather undercard in Vegas… but it’s a fraction of what I set out to do.
I’ve been trying to watch my weight a bit, but when I come to Las Vegas, all bets are off. I get enough healthy food in L.A. where the food is the size of a quarter and costs $40 – when I’m in Vegas, I want a steak!
The last episode of Dallas was in ‘1991.’ Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.
Actually, I was born in Las Vegas. My parents moved to Utah when I was eight because, after 40 years in Vegas, they were tired of it. We ended up in Nephi, a really small town in Utah.
I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that’s where all that influence comes from.
In 2009, I began creating ‘Waterworks’ with the new vernacular coming from the ‘Signs of Life’ work in Las Vegas.
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.
In Europe, you can sit out and sit in the sun, and you get a very golden tan. The tan you get in Las Vegas is a darker tan, and it’s not the same.
I spent some time in Vegas when I was doing some canvassing for Obama back in 2008.
Most people think of Las Vegas, and they think of extravagance. But it’s really a mix between fantasy and laziness.
The songs that I’ve done represent partying, so when people come see me in Vegas they know that they’re going to have a good time.
I really didn’t have a big relationship with Vegas until I was in my 20s, and now I probably come out four or five times a year. I love it.
When I first went to Las Vegas, I thought I would never go to Las Vegas; you can’t get anything. But then I realized that they were trucking in almost everything; you could get a lot of your product, and I think that’s why a lot of chefs actually went there.
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.
I love Atlanta. It’s a great city with great crews there, but it’s really hard to make it into a Las Vegas version of it because it doesn’t look at all like Las Vegas.
Being from Iowa, I can tell you that Vegas is not normal.
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.’
The success of one market model cannot be migrated to another. Ignoring Macau’s special characteristics and duplicating a Las Vegas or an Atlantic City would not be a successful strategy.
At first, when we got engaged, I asked him if we could just go to Vegas and get married by Elvis, just because I didn’t want to deal with planning a wedding.
I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
I love Vegas. I come to Vegas all the time… Check into a hotel for a day or two and enjoy the city.
I like Vegas for its spontaneity.
I went to high school with girls that would daydream about what strip club they wanted to work at. That’s one of the sad things about Vegas.
I’ve had some really, really wild fun nights in Vegas. I ended up on stage once with this band, The Digital Underground, doing the Humpty Dance.
Before The Ultimate Fighter, I was appearing before a couple of hundred people at most. Now, I’m on the card of a Las Vegas blockbuster… this is every Australian fighter’s dream.
Back in the day, I don’t think record labels were looking at Las Vegas too much for new acts, until the Killers came out.
We’ve had those experiences as a band and you fast forward to just the crazy rock ‘n’ roll nights, where you’d try to outlast each other and see who could drink the most. Fast forward to now and it really is amazing and nice how family-friendly Vegas has become.
Vegas people come with the attitude that they’re gonna go hard and party. I’ve partied in Ibiza and all over the world, and I think Vegas is the best party.
I have never taken a road trip. Unless you count Los Angeles to Vegas.
I love coming to Las Vegas. I’ve always loved it and always had a good time.
It’s weird to think I’m in a show in Vegas with my name in lights. It’s crazy, like a dream.
My Vegas act is how I make my money.
My sister, who is a wonderful and beautiful actress now, when she was 11 or 12, she would go out and take pictures of the punk parties in the desert. She used to have blue hair, and she got kicked out of Las Vegas Day School for having blue hair.
I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.
When I first got here, Vegas still felt like a destination. Now it’s become a real city.
Vegas represents the idea of America I had as a kid. The big cars, the pretty girls; everything is possible in Vegas.
Nobody realizes that Mormons were the first Americans to settle Las Vegas.
I thought I could play the hellraiser and then put ‘Johnny Vegas’ back in his box. I found popularity through self-destruction. The more you damage yourself, the more people are drawn to you, and that can be quite addictive. It is not a lifestyle you can maintain.
Las Vegas is a big draw. There are a lot things to do there other than basketball.
The good news for us is the NHL has never been stronger, never been more popular, and that, I guess, has led to a lot of interest being expressed from a number of places, an interest in getting an expansion team, and Las Vegas happens to be one of those places.
I worked with so many comedians who became big names – so many, I can’t even remember some of their names. John Byner, Totie Fields, Joan Rivers. Shecky Green at the MGM. When I started my career, my first hotel in Las Vegas was at the old Flamingo. My opening act was Bill Cosby.
I can fight Mark Hunt, Velasquez, Brock Lesnar or anyone else in Las Vegas.
I love seafood. Whenever I’m in Las Vegas, I love going to the Bellagio buffet because they have these great king crab legs.
I’m not a crazy Vegas guy. I’m not a gambler.
My family and I were already living our best lives before ‘Jeopardy!’ called, so we mostly want to continue that while also giving back to the children of the Las Vegas community.
You don’t wear leather bucket hats in Vegas.
I compete with the ‘Welcome To Las Vegas’ sign for the number one non-gaming tourist attraction in Las Vegas. I get more visitors than the Hoover Dam.
If tacky souvenirs like fridge magnets and slogan T-shirts are your thing, you’ll be in your element in Las Vegas.
When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer’s syndrome – I played craps and lost.
I’m not a big fan of cold weather; that’s why I moved to Vegas!
There’s actually a song called ‘Vegas Lights,’ which I wanted to be an anthem for Vegas, that represented how I felt when I went to the clubs. I felt this weird energy where everybody was having a good time, and it didn’t matter. Dancing like nobody’s watching. It was kind of beautiful.
