Show Biz Quotes

#1. Everything's show biz in the end

Richard Kadrey

#2. In any other job, they're truck drivers. In show-biz, they're Transportation Captains.

Drew Carey

#3. Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

Carroll O'Connor

#4. We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious.

Neil Innes

#5. We're gonna have to sweeten some of these jokes for the CD. You know what sweeten means, right? Sweeten is a show-biz term for "add sugar to".

Mitch Hedberg

#6. I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry - and charge you $ 8.50

David Lee Roth

#7. Basically each one of us is alone here. Everything else is show biz.

Art Hochberg

#8. I have one show biz picture in my house. It's with Mr. Hope. I have asked for one autograph in my life: Mr. Hope's.

Henry Cho

#9. This might be the end of the world as we know it, but it's still show biz.

Richard Kadrey

#10. Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be.

Lyle Lovett

#11. The theatre show-biz types don't change much, no matter what era we're in. The question of how you balance being in show business with your personal life isn't very different.

Scott Ellis

#12. Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.

Gabe Kaplan

#13. I grew up in a show biz family and, if you wanted to talk at the dinner table, you'd better be prepared to talk about film.

John Orloff

#14. I got to wear pancake makeup because you know I'm a show biz professional and they all wear pancake makeup. I got to drink free cokes!

Levi Johnston

#15. I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.

Albert Brooks

#16. But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it.

Rob Sheffield

#17. You might be a redneck if your sophisticated show-biz cousin is a rodeo clown.

Jeff Foxworthy

#18. My big fear is that I'll put down so many people, I'll have to leave show biz.

Andy Kindler

#19. My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.

Micky Dolenz

#20. I just stepped off the show biz bus and changed gears.

Michael Ontkean

#21. I remember being at the premiere of 'Beverly Hills Cop II' and the tremendous reaction from the crowd outside, then going to a party at a hotel afterwards where the speakers were blasting 'Shakedown,' a song from the movie. That felt like a show biz moment to me.

Gilbert Gottfried

#22. I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing. Soon after, I got the idea of a science show geared toward kids, around ages 8 through 12.

Bill Nye

#23. If we admit it or not, skiing is a little bit of show biz.

Willy Bogner Jr.

#24. I used to think no one should go into show biz, but now I feel differently. I now feel like it's a great career. If you can do it and make money at it and still not be so famous that you can have a normal life - then I think it's a great career.

Julia Sweeney

#25. Besides, it is wrong to be angry with people for not being so clever as you are yourself. It is not always their faults.

E. Nesbit

#26. Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Daniel Webster

#27. When I first got into this biz called show, I decided I was going to change my name, make it more Hollywood. And you know how you do that? You take your middle name and the first street that you ever lived on. So when I first started, I actually went by Sue Rural Route 2.

Bonnie McFarlane

#28. Indeed, we often mark our progress in science by improvements in imaging.

Martin Chalfie

#29. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

David Sarnoff

#30. Being alone can be good. It is easy to find peace alone. But sometimes...being alone is a kind of death.

Dean Koontz

#31. Lydia was Lydia still; untamed, unabashed, wild, noisy, and fearless.

Jane Austen

#32. Where does music go when it's not playing? - she asked herself. And disarmed she would answer: May they make a harp out of my nerves when I die.

Clarice Lispector

#33. Foresight is a virtue and averts many a misfortune.

Johanna Spyri

#34. Being with him after so long, after everything we'd endured ... it was like coming home.

Richelle Mead

#35. As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Helen Keller

#36. Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

Norman Mailer

#37. Achilles too staggered a moment. He felt his soul change colour. Blood pooled at his feet, and though he continued to stand upright and triumphant in the sun, his spirit set off on its own downward path and approached the boarders of an unknown region.

David Malouf

#38. I f nothing saves us from death, may love at least save us from life.

Pablo Neruda

#39. Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.

George Sanders