Top 45 Nightclub Quotes

Everyone his own cinematographer. His own stream-of-consciousness e-mail poet. His own nightclub DJ. His own political columnist. His own biographer of his top-10 friends!

As a child, I lived in Germany at the Ramstein air force base, where my dad sang at a nightclub in Kaiserslautern. My parents couldn’t afford a babysitter, so when I was, like, ten or 11, I would go with them to the bar until two in the morning.

I think if you’re fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk… why do that? I don’t understand how some people would want fame so bad that they’d go out and get negative attention to earn it.

My father ran a famous L.A. nightclub complete with roller-rink – Flippers – in the early Eighties which was the West Coast’s answer to Studio 54.

When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That’s the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.

As I am straight up and down, I make a good flapper. One of the highlights of my life was dancing the Charleston with Len Goodman in a nightclub in a cream, Twenties-style dress; it was the nearest I’ll ever get to appearing on ‘Strictly’.

Part of what made ‘The Bling Ring’ such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we’d never pick in real life – like for the nightclub scenes, we’d have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what – I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!

Andy Warhol was a good friend of mine. We used to go to the Studio 54 nightclub together with the likes of Liza Minnelli, and we’d dance through the night.

What is ‘cool,’ anyway? Maybe it’s Warne Marsh, almost totally obscure and penniless, coming in late to a fourth-rate Hollywood nightclub, playing like an angel with a couple of sidemen, but never speaking to or even acknowledging another human being.

There is something I don’t get about the party scene in Delhi and Gurgaon, especially in Gurgaon. Why do people dress up so much when they go out to the nightclub or disco here?

It’s just as important to work on the little muscle groups as well as the big muscle groups. People, when they train, go to gyms. I call them ‘nightclub bodies’ – ginormous up top, and legs are little sticks. You see a lot of people, and they forget you can’t leave the little muscles behind.

I don’t really do any corporate gigs or I don’t really cash in which is a bit silly and much to the annoyance of my family. I’d rather just do gigs that I like and TV shows that I like rather than personal appearances at a nightclub.

I’m the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I tweet all my pictures, which is bad.

In 1988, I earned something like £700,000. Yeah! I was earning 10 grand an hour opening shopping centres. Yeah! The most I earned in one day was 65 grand. I opened the Alton Towers fun ride in the morning, did a commercial in the afternoon and an appearance at a nightclub in the evening. Sixty-five grand in one day!

George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that’s what I’m trying to do.

I didn’t DJ at Liverpool’s Ruby Sky nightclub but a couple of newspapers said how great my DJ set was, and how I’ve straightened up, which is true, and how I was drinking tea. But I wasn’t there!

I toured as a nightclub comedian and did some television in New York.

A lot of people go into the bar and nightclub business thinking: ‘Hey, we can make money for a year or two, close and then open again,’ but for me, it’s always been a business and it’s always been about longevity.

I even opened a nightclub called Evonne’s.

‘The Madison’ we three weeks rehearsed in a nightclub. Brasseur and Frey didn’t know how to dance. A choreographer had to teach us how to do the steps.

I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub and never date a fan.

I still sing, but completely for my own pleasure. I play a nightclub singer in ‘Sparkle,’ but I’d like to pursue it a bit more. I sang at a friend’s 60th at Claridge’s the other month; I did ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’ with the actor Hilton McRae, and ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow.’

I want the little lassies who are thinking of going to a nightclub in Cardiff to stop to see what that guy’s screaming for, or Grandma to put her knitting down to see why that guy’s chatting about Alexander the Great. I’m after pulling in, whether it’s in Manila, Beijing or whatever, the biggest possible audience.

We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a big impact on my life.

Nobody in this world thinks they’re having enough sex. Watch any night on television, or any comedian in a nightclub, and every other joke is about people who aren’t getting enough.

If you put this in the context of Detroit in ’64 or ’65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there was a whole nightclub culture where bands could work.

If you were to come out and hang out with me, just having fun at a nightclub or a party, that’s kind of the version of Harland you’d get – silly, kind of always saying wacky things.

A friend got attacked outside a nightclub just for being deaf. I stuck up for him but ended up getting in a bit of a trouble myself. I played with a tag at Stocksbridge. I had a little curfew. Luckily, it didn’t stop me playing football. Being put on a tag, I could have lost playing football again.

I’ll never forget where I came from or who my friends are. But I know there is a time and a place to be with them. That’s not being with 20 or 30 people in a nightclub or walking around the streets.

I worked in a restaurant and in a nightclub cloakroom.

Certain Arabs love Dubai because it’s not at all like where they live. Certain others hate it for the same reason. When you hear an Osama bin Laden sympathizer rant about the decadence and hypocrisy of the Arab ruling class, you can be certain he’s picturing a nightclub in Dubai.

I think the saddest moment in my life just happened two months ago. My old nightclub partner passed away, Phil Erickson down in Atlanta. He – I owe him everything. He put me in the business and taught me about everything I know.

When I work a nightclub, I dress up in evening wear. There’s a certain elegance to it all and I like that.

I did a couple of pilots that didn’t sell, a few movies, and one year of nightclub work, which I hated. Then I did the pilot of ‘The Brady Bunch’ and never had to do another nightclub.

If you’re driving around or at home with the stereo blasting pure dance track, it gets boring within about 15 minutes. It doesn’t work at home like it does in a nightclub. You’ve got no atmosphere.

In ’57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door.

I am fine with ‘Puppy Love.’ I hated it for a while. But I still sing it. I have a country version, a sexy version and a cheesy nightclub version. I am trying to infuse it with maturity. I will never escape that song. I will always be Mr. ‘Puppy Love.’

My mom is two people to me. She’s my mom number one, and then she’s this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that’s responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers.

There’s a difference between being a drag queen on TV where the masses can tune in and watch, and then at a nightclub where you have to be a certain age to get in. There’s a different decorum. We’re all trying to push boundaries, but also trying to stay in our lane.

In the early 70s I was offered a job on a newspaper. At the last minute the offer was withdrawn because there was a strike on. I bought a nightclub and turned it into a restaurant instead.

I’ve worked in a call centre and as a nightclub waitress. I served champagne to Rihanna.

I want to shake people up so bad, that when they leave a nightclub where I’ve performed, I just want them to be to pieces.

I was accepted to UCLA, but at the same time, I had a job offer at Chicago’s Chez Paree nightclub. My father, being a practical man, felt I should take the job.

There’s no better feeling in the world than when I walk in a pub, or a nightclub or a bar or a supermarket, anywhere, and you see people out the corner of your eye and they’re going, ‘Hey, there’s Ricky Hatton. Isn’t he a good lad, coming for a pint with us in here?’ It makes you feel proud.

I’ve had some pretty awful jobs that I don’t miss, like working on a nightclub door, or compiling VIP lists at 3 A.M. in the morning, but sometimes it’s just got to be done.