Show Quotes

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.

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

The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

I'm just in that stage where I pray for God to show me how I can be effective in the world and things come up and I go. But I have yet to really dig in.

Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats.

One of the things I noticed when I worked at Vibe was that backstage at a fashion show, they always referred to the black models as "black girls." I thought, "They never say 'white girls.'

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 would like to host a show, something like travel or cooking or something like that, something I'm really interested in, and so I'm pitching a couple television shows.

I put on a big show when I write something I think is funny.

I hate Billings, Montana. They have a fashion show at Sears Roebuck

My idea of gambling was walking through Central Park, whistling show tunes.

Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.

You don't need tons of money to create art. You do need tons of money to be a part of show business. They are two different things.

I never know tomorrow what I might be doing. I just ask God to lead me and show me and direct me and help me and support me in it. So I just wait to hear the call.

I went to a fashion show, and this silver-haired guy was staring at me with these piercing water-blue eyes. It scared me because I absolutely saw and knew my entire future.

For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.

When people show me clothing that seems very, very feminine, it's hard for me to embrace that, because it just doesn't feel like me.

Show me three lines of the opening theory moves and I will prove to you that two of them are incorrect.

There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.

I have a suspicion that the definition of "crazy" in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to f*** [sleep with her] anymore.

I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.

There's nobody in show business that I dislike so I wouldn't want to get in there to hurt anybody.

If you will show me the songs which a people or a community sing, then I will tell you the character of that community.

I'm a nice guy to anyone I meet, until they show me they don't deserve niceness. I'll turn very quickly. But I'm pretty pleasant overall.

I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck.

My home has always been show business.

The older I get, the more I appreciate what came before.

Leaders show respect for people by giving them time.

Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age

The religion is a formality. What matters is you show respect to God and your faith in God.

I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.

Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.

You show me a 50-foot wall and I'll show you a 51-foot ladder.

Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.