Quotes About Showbiz

I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today.

is. It's a man's world and show business is a man's meal, with women generously sprinkled through it like overqualified spice.)

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

Good heavens, television is something you appear on, you don't watch.

I still enjoy performing, whether it's in front of two people or 2,000 people, but it's not fun once you leave the big show.

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.

That was mandatory in the contract with Aaron Spelling, that if you were contracted to do one of his shows, you had to do any other shows that were his.

When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.

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

I've never been in the music industry, only acting.

He chased me for three months before the show. But, Vishal Karwal is not my friend now, and 'Bigg Boss' made me realize that he was never a friend in the first place.

I have never hidden my relationship and I have been called the worst names in the showbiz world.

There are various factors that make a show, so if the shows of other actors did not work, it's not their fault. I don't think it is fair to take names or bring down someone because their show didn't do well.

If you're part of a show that is watched by millions of millions of people, of course there are going to be nasty comments. You can't take them personally.

TV — a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville.

I think there's something so funny about Ram Dass. I was lucky enough to sit across from him at dinner once, and I got up the courage to tell him that he was my favorite comedian. Even though he's not a comic, he talks about showbiz in a certain way and understands that there's a presentation to it.

Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.

I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business, you need to have a certain internal stability.

When you're born into a showbiz family, the deck is stacked against you.

I can't remember if I had any stage fright at the first Bowl. But I did the second time.

Show business is stale ideas and stale actors.

I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.

Noel Fielding is one of the nicest guys in show business. The first time I met him, I felt like I had met a rather wayward cousin whose take on the world made me laugh.

but in show business, adultery isn't a motive for murder; it's a lifestyle.