Show Off Quotes

#1. 'Minute to Win It' is a variation on a game show from the 1950s called 'Beat the Clock,' in which contestants won washing machines and fox stoles by doing such pointless stunts as catching a tennis ball in a paper cup or knocking a hat off one's wife's head with a whipped-cream spritzer. - Author: Tom Shales

#2. Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess.
- Ch. 5 - Author: Amy Tan

#3. I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years. - Author: Young Jeezy

#4. My first acting gig was a skit for Jay Leno on 'The Tonight Show.' It was this Barbie commercial where I got to pour mud all over Barbie dolls and watch the heads pop off. It was so exciting, a lot of fun. - Author: Brie Larson

#5. Every man should care (be concerned) about these three things: Which station have I come from? Which station did I get off? Which station am I going to? - Author: Dada Bhagwan

#6. We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God. - Author: Tina Weymouth

#7. Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant. - Author: Beverly Cleary

#8. When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with a character or a logline like, "What if the electricity turned off?" - Author: Eric Kripke

#9. The one thing I'm really the most confident in as an artist is my songwriting ability and ear for pop music. I'm really excited to show that off. It was a side that I wasn't able to show on 'American Idol.' - Author: Nick Fradiani

#10. Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that can't be spoken. - Author: Rumi

#11. Primarily I have a simple desire to shine my ass - to show off a bit in print. - Author: Elliott Chaze

#12. I'd like to do a reality show with four white people ... who are dropped off in a really bad black neighborhood. And the show would be called ... Cracker Hunt. - Author: Zach Galifianakis

#13. I know, if I am playing well, I can be as good as anyone, and I want to show people who write you off and forget about you. - Author: Alan Smith

#14. Don't pretend to be a great master and don't try to show off your strength. - Author: Gichin Funakoshi

#15. I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off. - Author: Wang Jianlin

#16. Then you're going to take off your suit and show me just how much you missed your phone cord."
"And the attachment."
"And the attachment. - Author: Sylvain Reynard

#17. I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed. - Author: Elton John

#18. I had a radio show at the local college and I got kicked off the air and banished forever for playing music from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Alice Cooper, and David Bowie because (quote-unquote) "They were gay." So, things have changed quite a bit. - Author: Anne Boleyn

#19. My clothes are built to show off the woman who wears them. I like them to be simple ... to move well, to move with the times and a little ahead of the times. - Author: Hattie Carnegie

#20. I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to fly. This way, nobody needs to grow any wings, which would be impossible anyway because we're humans and not some kind of bird. - Author: Richie Sambora

#21. Women show off their personality and character through accessories more than with low-cut shirts and skirts with huge slits. - Author: Sarah Lafleur

#22. It's interesting because a lot of people that stop me on the street now, and they talk about 'The Wire,' and they all have the same question: 'How come they took that show off the air?' - Author: Seth Gilliam

#23. I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself, and I got off drugs, completely kicked all that stuff. - Author: Tommy Kirk

#24. I had a stammer through adolescence. Any fun I'd had performing in school plays disappeared and only came back at 18, when the stammer started to go. Then I thought: 'Well, perhaps I can show off now.' - Author: Charles Dance

#25. The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off. - Author: Robert Hand

#26. I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler. - Author: Patrick Dempsey

#27. I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller. - Author: Ralph Waite

#28. Statistics show that teen pregnancy drops off significantly after age 2 - Author: MaryAnne Tebedo

#29. You don't need to show off your body to catch a boy's eye. You'd best learn that early on, or you'll be bringing home the worst sort of boy. - Author: Danielle Steel

#30. To those who would call me a thug or worse because I show passion on a football field - don't judge a person's character by what they do between the lines. Judge a man by what he does off the field, what he does for his community, what he does for his family. - Author: Richard Sherman

#31. A simple thank you for saving my life would suffice. I don't need for you to carry me off to your bed to show your gratitude. - Author: Courtney Cole

#32. My favorite show is America's Funniest Home Videos. People will get hit on the head and I feel bad cause I'm laughing my head off! - Author: Corbin Bleu

#33. After making insulting remarks about Mexicans, Donald Trump has been kicked off of NBC and Univision. On the bright side, Trump's hair has a new show on Animal Planet. - Author: Conan O'Brien

#34. Over the years, I managed to develop this comedy career, went from opening act to headliner at comedy clubs, to playing concert halls, and had an off-Broadway show with 'Sleepwalk With Me.' - Author: Mike Birbiglia

#35. ... I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they're lies of character. Sometimes they are lies of writing the most beautiful sentence in the world that has nothing to do with the story. - Author: Grace Paley

#36. When I started off with 'Dance India Dance,' even the TV show people thought it won't be accepted. But with the talent that the show received, I was able to personally tutor dancers to amalgamate contemporary dance moves on Bollywood tracks. - Author: Terence Lewis

#37. The pilot is a sales tool; it introduces you to the characters and might set the template for what the show is meant to be, but there's so many boxes you have to check off on a pilot that it can sort of hurt the storytelling in a way. - Author: Michael Spiller

#38. One of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum". - Author: Mark Twain

#39. Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To own is to have, to have is to hold, and to hold is to show off. - Author: Douglas Rushkoff

#40. Give me a piece of cake from your love-life;
I'll show you how to lick fidelity's cream
off every layer you mistrust. - Author: Munia Khan

#41. A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do, killing time and hearing the sights and sounds of an unfamiliar place. - Author: Andrew Bird

#42. The real intimidating stuff is the scene where you show up for the first day. You kind of square off, and that is where you look each other in the eye. - Author: Ron Livingston

#43. If you're a monster, I'm a monster, he said with a grin broad enough to show off his elongated canines. - Author: Sarah J. Maas

#44. The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may. - Author: Thomas Carlyle

#45. Wow..is there anything you can't do? - Author: Toba Beta

#46. I'm a very smug show-off at heart. I'm altogether too pleased with myself. The big boost for me is to be able to turn out something that I think is pretty marvelous. I'm not in it for money, I'm just in it for the glory. - Author: Alan Moore

#47. When you make a mistake. You can do a little song and dance, put on a little show and have everyone laugh it off.
Or you can own it, and next time show everyone how great you are. While silencing your critiques.

Personally speaking... I don't help no one make a fool out of you. - Author: Vincent Edwards

#48. It always happens around beach resorts, a certain kind of money gravitates to the scene. The gold goes to the water. People love to wear it, show it off, roll with it. For me, I just find it disgusting. - Author: Jamie Lidell

#49. I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head. - Author: Dick Dale

#50. Nowadays, you really have to make an impression quick and I think this does give people a chance to show off what they've got. It's very difficult these days. You really have to stand out quickly. I think it's also so diverse that there's enough material for everybody. - Author: Julie Halston

#51. Daphne, whatever you could think of in your wildest imagination, there is a game for it and probably has been for a thousand years.' He pulled off his shirt and advanced on her. 'For example, there is the lovely lady taken up against the wall game. I'll show you how it is played. - Author: Madeline Hunter

#52. I worked with Marlon Wayans on the show 'They Wayans Brothers,' and we hit it off. One thing about Marlon, when he casts a movie or a TV show, he expects you to bring it. You've got to be ready to improv, because Marlon will say anything, and you've got to be ready to come back. - Author: Kym Whitley

#53. I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that. - Author: Bill Burr

#54. Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide,
First strip off all her equipage of Pride,
Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,
Or Learning's Luxury or idleness,
Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain
Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain. - Author: Alexander Pope

#55. I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off. - Author: Daniel Craig

#56. I'm not a show-off by nature. - Author: Kate Moss

#57. I try to do an hour of cardio on the days that I have off, and then I'll do 30 to 45 minutes on show days. That's the first thing I do when I wake up, I have breakfast and then I'll hit the gym. - Author: Travis Barker

#58. We were all used to Dad's little show-off sessions, and though they were never worthy of excitement, we always tried to humor him. (Last weekend he'd called us out to the lawn to see what a big pile of dandelions he'd weeded.) - Author: Emily Cassel

#59. I'm not a show-off; I'm not an exhibitionist. - Author: Kelly Reilly

#60. Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it. - Author: Ralph Ellison

#61. Being stress and anxiety free is a human preset, I just show you how to 'flick the switch' to off. Permanent stress and anxiety recovery is possible quickly and simply despite what many are told. - Author: Charles Linden

#62. I'm a slave to the culture, so I see an Audi, a Denali, or an Escalade, my neighbor got the four-door Porsche. I have a really nice truck. But it's a Durango and I like frontin'! I like to ride by and show off. - Author: Patrice O'Neal

#63. We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves. - Author: Jane Yolen

#64. Now we get quite a lot of complaints that we don't feature enough affordable cars on the show so we'll kick off tonight with the cheapest Ferrari of them all! - Author: Jeremy Clarkson

#65. I wanted to be a comedian, I wanted people to laugh at what I was saying, not to be staring at my boobs or wearing a skirt and show off my ... I just didn't think that that was the best way to get taken seriously in that world. - Author: Chelsea Handler

#66. You know, l don't kid myself about the show. If it doesn't get ratings, it's off. Look, if I came up with the cure for cancer and it didn't get ratings, they wouldn't put it on. That's how vicious that business is. - Author: Donald Trump

#67. Manon told herself it was for an alliance. Told herself it was for show.
But all she could see was the unconditional love in that dying wyvern's eyes as she unbuckled her harness, stood from the saddle, and leapt off Abraxos. - Author: Sarah J. Maas

#68. What are you doing?" she asked, trying to raise herself.
"First, I thought I'd show you what a pity it would be if they cut off my wicked tongue. - Author: Melina Marchetta

#69. Every time I'm home, it's like a vacation, but I've been playing in bands since I was 11. I guess our goals were always small goals. It started off my goal was just to be in a band. Then it was to have a drummer that would show up. - Author: Brittany Howard

#70. We need to remember that the primary goal of Aikido is harmony and good relations between people. If we don't cultivate a harmonious heart along with technical skill, there will be a lack of integration in our practice, which will show up in behavior off the mat. - Author: Linda Holiday

#71. why do you like fights Darry~Ponyboy
He just likes to show off his muscles~Sodapop - Author: S.E. Hinton

#72. Right away, I invited on guests like Steve Wozniak, John Draper, and even porn star Danni Ashe, who took her top off in the studio to show us all how hot she was. (Listen up, Howard Stern, I'm following in your footsteps!) - Author: Kevin D. Mitnick

#73. Have four things going. I have stand-up comedy, two television shows and I'm working on a play. I like to work, and I fear that something could fall through. You know what they say: 'The show must go off.' - Author: Joy Behar

#74. The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy. - Author: Edward Ruscha

#75. I'm vain. My arms are thin, but I'm vain about loose flesh. And so I'm careful that what I wear will show off my best parts, which are my waist and my butt. - Author: Jane Fonda

#76. Problems can usually be solved with simple, mundane solutions. That means there's no glamorous work. You don't get to show off your amazing skills. You just build something that gets the job done and then move on. This approach may not earn you oohs and aahs, but it lets you get on with it. - Author: Jason Fried

#77. I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was 'Peter Pan.' - Author: David Hasselhoff

#78. My father worked in a scientific lab where he designed and built glass instruments. He was regarded as brilliant at his job and once constructed a human brain in glass just to show off his skills. - Author: Christopher Fowler

#79. Same if you had a bad show, it just rolls off you more easily. - Author: Aoife O'Donovan

#80. I was always a show-off - as a kid I was never afraid to make a fool of myself, and I guess that's still true. - Author: Ann Robinson

#81. I primarily buy art to show it off. - Author: Charles Saatchi

#82. I didn't want to do 'Fashion Police' because I thought, 'This is stupid, this is beneath me, who wants to talk about fashion?' It has taken off. We are the number one show in England on E! Who knew? - Author: Joan Rivers

#83. I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents. - Author: Luke Perry

#84. What I believe in and the way I work with my clients is we're so quick to say what we don't like about our bodies, but it's really important to say the things we do like about our bodies. If you know you have great legs or a great butt, or if you're curvy, show it off if you're proud of it. - Author: Brad Goreski

#85. I'm truly sorry that I ruined you," I whisper into her hair as her breathing begins to show signs of sleep. "Me, too," she breathes, and regret fills in the little spaces between us as she drifts off. - Author: Anna Todd

#86. I am thinking of the onion again ... Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples. - Author: Erica Jong

#87. By no means do I want to be a piece of meat for the rest of my career. It's funny when you get asked to do a talk show, and then they follow it up with requesting you take your shirt off. - Author: Kellan Lutz

#88. There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is. - Author: Roberto Cavalli

#89. If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything. - Author: Michael Schenker

#90. Yes, I did some rewrites of the show as some of the stuff was not very good and I worked my butt off to make it something that the audience liked and that I could be proud of. - Author: Gil Gerard

#91. It's important me as a musician and also as an occasional show goer to feel the presence of a band on stage, to hear a PA reverberating and slapping off the walls, the push and pull of an audience, the blood, sweat, and heat. It's a primal thing in a way. - Author: Jacob Bannon

#92. I know about lots of things that have nothing to do with being Asian, that you would never guess from looking at me. I know all about musical theater. I could go on 'Jeopardy!' and knock off the whole Broadway show tunes category. Also the whole Bible stories category. - Author: B. D. Wong

#93. I tend to be very private. It's easier for me. When you're acting, you're very susceptible to comments that somebody makes, so if they know something is going to happen on the show, and they say something, it can actually throw you off. So I tend to not share things with anybody. - Author: Tom Noonan

#94. Foolish potato, talking to her like that won't work. You've got to be mean and show off your foil-wrapped rigidity. - Author: Michael Diack

#95. You don't want to be on a show that no one wants to see, and then think your phone is going to be ringing off the hook to do other jobs. I'm not tethered to the fact that my demise may be reached this season or next season, or whatever. - Author: Isaiah Washington

#96. It's hard when you put a year of good work into something and someone at the top says no, and they pull your show's title off a bulletin board and chuck it in the trash. - Author: Tyler Labine

#97. Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially if the phrase is at someone else's expense. - Author: Harvey MacKay

#98. I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would show up, and he would be there, and I would get exiled to a couch or something, and it would throw me off my game. - Author: Lev Grossman

#99. Why do I want my wife to show off her panties when the wind blows? Horses show their behinds, and cows and mules, not humans - Author: Muhammad Ali

#100. One day, my sweet girl, some lucky man will come and help you understand the very meaning of love. He will sweep you off your feet and show you what it is to place your heart in someone else's care to willingly offer them the gift of your soul. - Author: Tillie Cole