Top 82 Quotes About Showbiz
#1. For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.
Alexei Sayle
#2. My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.
Ben Stiller
#3. These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty; they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.
Julie Burchill
#4. Despite being in showbiz, I have a very real approach to my life. It plays off with my social life.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
#5. When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.
Ice Cube
#6. They say you can fool some of the people all of the time. Accordingly, I think we should concentrate on this group initially. We can move on to the people you can only fool some of the time at a later date if we deem it necessary.
Stephen Mitchell
#7. The kids think we're wacky. Mum and Dad are in showbiz - they don't know any other way. They've grown up travelling all over the world and are getting a worldly education. My son is 12 and he can speak eloquently on religions and cultures.
Deborra-Lee Furness
#8. Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it!
Ryan Seacrest
#9. Sadness is just happiness turned on its ass - it's all showbiz!
Guy Maddin
#10. My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
#11. I work to live, not live to work, so my head's at home, not in some showbiz life.
Stephen Graham
#12. Jim Reston: Walking through the crowds of air-kissing politicians, actors and high fliers, it was tough to tell where the politics stopped and the showbiz started. Maybe, in the end, there is no difference.
Peter Morgan
#13. I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren't showbiz people. But going back was strange, and perhaps stranger for the other students.
Henry Thomas
#14. I'm not a showbiz person. I just enjoy talking nonsense on the radio. I'm not bothered about going to clubs or the paparazzi, I genuinely prefer my neighbours. Spending time with my family and watching Coronation Street are what I love best. People are just people, aren't they?
Tony Blackburn
#15. I like to be human and not lose myself in becoming a mannequin, which people in showbiz are accused of.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
#16. I go down to the dive bar around the corner when I go out. I don't go to the showbiz parties.
Paul Dano
#17. I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.
Willem Dafoe
#18. I have been called 'Bongshell' the day I stepped into showbiz. So, any adjective coming my way, I take it positively. Sometimes it's also entertaining, but I don't feel bad about it. I'm a proud woman.
Bipasha Basu
#19. The showbiz world has to be manipulated to make it more interesting because most people's lives are boring.
James Blunt
#20. 'Doctor Who' has a certain amount of showbiz attached to it.
Peter Capaldi
#21. As women, we tend to take the easy way out in showbiz. I have done movies where all I did was look pretty in every frame.
Bipasha Basu
#22. Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.
Klaus Schulze
#23. I'm showbiz-fat. It's so funny, in all the reviews that I read, no one wants to use the word 'fat' as an adjective. So I have to deal with 'dimpled-kneed,' 'hefty,' 'plus-sized,' the most obscure words you can imagine.
Marissa Jaret Winokur
#24. It looked like Ben Stiller was one of the showbiz meteorites who was moving so fast he would soon have no worlds left to conquer.
Manohla Dargis
#25. My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.
Candace Cameron Bure
#26. During my early years, I thought I might be a musician. Like most kids, I didn't do what my parents wanted me to do. They were gung-ho that all their kids become actors. They loved showbiz so much. I am a product of nepotism, basically.
Jeff Bridges
#27. The Hell's Angels as a group are often willfully stupid, but they are not without savoir-faire, and their predilection for travelling in packs is a long way from being all showbiz. Nor is it entirely due to warps and defects in their collective personality.
Hunter S. Thompson
#28. Showbiz is just there to give people something to talk about.
Penn Jillette
#29. What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.
Saffron Burrows
#30. There's one way to do showbiz, if you want to do it perfectly, you have to be disciplined and you have to be ready to work really hard.
Celine Dion
#31. Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.
Jason Schwartzman
#32. It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor.
Pawan Kalyan
#33. Sitcom food is by far the tastiest of all showbiz food.
Ken Jeong
#34. I'm not a great flyer. It's ironic, since I'm in showbiz and have to fly at least twice a week. I try to sleep and blot it out.
Suzi Quatro
#35. Of course, with showbiz there's a lot of negative things, along with the positive, and it's just what you choose to focus on. And I choose to focus on the positive.
Carmen Rasmusen
#36. Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a "good program": ethic equals showbiz.
Frederic Raphael
#37. If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
Sadie Frost
#38. The pushy showbiz kid thing was always the performance, not the person. I'm very solitary. I don't like socialising.
Bonnie Langford
#39. Showbiz is great if you're successful.
Don Rickles
#40. The truth is, people go to shows because they want a show. They want showbiz. When people talk about a show they saw it's not because they heard a song, it's because they were excited and geared up about the show.
Arthur Fogel
#41. The shrill witch-hunter voices of the showbiz correspondents would bring up every last bit left in your stomach from the night before
Haruki Murakami
#43. Diplomats negotiate. That's what I do on my show. So I consider myself a diplomat in showbiz.
Woody Milintachinda
#44. People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.
Jo Brand
#46. My belief is that everything that's written about you is actually secondary showbiz nonsense, and you shouldn't take any notice of it.
Martin Amis
#47. Always remember, if you decide to come to the showbiz party the dress code is 'Thick Skin'. Our
Graham Norton
#48. Fortunately, I'm known as the hardest-working woman in showbiz, not to compete with James Brown. I've always been a multi-tasker.
Tamara Tunie
#50. As for being sociable, I hate the phoniness in the showbiz world. I know this will be taken wrong, but I don't like clubs and organizations. I was never a joiner.
Johnny Carson
#51. I think it's particularly fun not being a full-time showbiz reporter because you still have the 'Oh, wow!' factor when you go out on the red carpet and there are these big stars that are standing there. But if you're doing this day in and day out, it becomes a little blase.
Daryn Kagan
#52. I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress.
Lauren Bacall
#53. I'm a fan of people that have quality, that do what they do and that are not into the showbiz.
Ralph Lauren
#54. In this business (showbiz) it takes time to be really good and by that time, you're obsolete.
Cher
#55. My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called 'Hey, Dude.' That was my first real paid scriptwriting job.
Graham Yost
#56. I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz.
Ryan Reynolds
#58. We all know showbiz isn't easy, but being a comic - especially being a female comic - can be quite punishing.
Judy Gold
#59. You're about to be the conductor on the most brilliant, runaway train in showbiz. Good luck you'll love it.
Dermot O'Leary
#60. I always hate people that complain about showbiz after they've had a good run. To me there are so many great bands that never get their due, that are struggling away. And I'm like, if you hit the lottery, man, you can't expect it to come around every time.
Miles Zuniga
#61. My parents were involved in everything I did. They were showbiz people themselves. My dad was an actor. They were parents; they did what parents are supposed to do.
Tina Yothers
#62. I was raised as a tomboy with boys, and I never really feel like myself when I am really dolled up at premieres and showbiz events.
Isla Fisher
#63. Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz.
Maureen O'Hara
#64. I hardly ever go to showbiz parties, it's not my style. That doesn't mean to say I don't have a good time. I love hanging out with mates.
Max Beesley
#65. I'm in showbiz. I look at my boobs like they're show horses or show dogs. You've got to keep them groomed.
Dolly Parton
#66. Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.
John Podhoretz
#67. The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.
Brian Eno
#68. My sister and I both benefited hugely from the great security that our parents had given us, and then we went off and squandered it all rushing around in showbiz.
Tom Hollander
#70. When you're born into a showbiz family, the deck is stacked against you.
John Darnielle
#71. You cannot open a major New York restaurant today and not be aware that showbiz will play a role.
Danny Meyer
#72. I think, if you've got children, that's your life. Your 'showbiz' life, if you want to call it that, is a separate thing, and it isn't everything to me.
Rob Brydon
#73. What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this bubble of showbiz and you only know people who make movies, you don't really have an understanding of the world outside.
Emily Browning
#74. My dad is an ambassador. My brother is a diplomat. I doubt that I could be doing anything else other than being a diplomat if I weren't in showbiz. It's in the genes!
Woody Milintachinda
#75. A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
Tate Donovan
#77. I never go to these showbiz parties. I avoid them with a 10-inch pole.
Chris O'Dowd
#78. My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.
Jeff Bridges
#79. It's probably my favorite part of my whole showbiz experience, is Broadway. The community of Broadway. That feeling that happens every night.
Rosie O'Donnell
#80. I don't mind being accused of being a bad comedian and I don't even mind being accused of being a bad talk-show host, but I never want to be accused of being an arrogant, pompous showbiz asshole.
David Letterman
#81. Sometimes. I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous. I'm pretty low on the showbiz totem pole - I mean, I'm no Jon or Kate plus eight. I'm just a comic, not a baby factory.
Dave Attell
#82. These absurd showbiz queens are as much a part of New York street life as sirens, steam from manholes, or ghostly Asian deliverymen ferrying chop-suey-to-go on unlit bikes going the wrong way.
Edmund White
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