Show Quotes

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Show me a man with a great golf game, and I’ll show you a man who has been neglecting something.

People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on The Daily Show ... I don't think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor.

I am constantly asked why I never made other films after 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' the answer is I was never asked.

Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.

Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes.

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

Show me your achievement, and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.

I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I'll never, ever work again.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

You show you care, you die.You show you fear, you die.You show nothing, maybe you live.

The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

I have a picture I keep in my wallet of my father's corpse... I keep that picture in my wallet to show people who show me baby pictures.

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.

Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser.

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

I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.

My limo driver's white, my attorney black... 'Show me some love' like I'm Bernie Mac.

Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.

I pray a lot. I pray that God will show me what to do and will guide me and lead me.

I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

I never advocate that you should be lonely, or come to my shows and bring me your razor blade to show me that you don't cut anymore.

I feel fortunate as a woman to have a husband who loves me and shows me in every way.

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents.

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event. I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.

I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'

Anything can change in show business, you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the other.

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!

People always say, well, how do you get through show business? How do you swim the waters? And how do you survive and all that? I had a very solid method, and that is team up with ambitious partners.

[With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays,' and of course you've got nothing to show.

I'm her protection! I don't care if it's in this world or the next. Just show me how to get where she is, and I'll be there for her. ~Stark

You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.

O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men?

The least I can do is show Medgar I still care. And Martin.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

I'll be like Irving Berlin: "There's no business like show business."

I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.

I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.

I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.

I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.

I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

Show me a wife who doesn't offer advice and I'll show you one who doesn't care very much.

It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes.