Quotes About Showbiz

A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

I'm a performer. We don't retire.

I grew up in show business, so I always knew I was going to be a dancer or a performer. I knew that was my business.

I always wanted to be a performer.

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

I wanted to be a performer, not someone who introduced other performers.

I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat it's nice to have that family history.

Glamour has been an integral part of showbiz from a longtime and the whole debate about exposing and vulgarity is blown out of proportions.

I've never had to get a job as a waiter or anything. I've always been able to support myself in 'the biz.' Which is great. It's really fantastic to be able to say that, because I know it's hard to do.

Me, I'm good at nothing but walking on the set with a pretty dress.

I tell people all the time that producers, writers, and directors really don't know what they want until it walks into the room - you have to show them what they want. Everyone is rooting for you when you walk into the room. Everyone wants you to be good because it means their day is over!

I have changed a lot as a person coming into showbiz and meeting a cross section of people from all walks of life; it was an amazing experience. But that's the privilege I had of being early into showbiz.

I don't want my shows to run for more than a year as you get bored doing the same role. But you don't want your show to end in three months either.

The showbiz world has to be manipulated to make it more interesting because most people's lives are boring.

Both my parents are actors.

Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

I have a lot of experience with the lights on bright - a lot of people watching and performing on live television.

I'm a Broadway baby! So, therefore, I started in the theater.

My dad did a radio show. I was on it when I was seven. So now you know that the showbiz bug bit me really early.

Some shows suck, but I always - the show must go on. I learned it from my past as a child actor. The show must go on. You have to just keep on with it.

People get sucked into being so show-bizy. I mean this is show biz, but I just can't do anything that's not in my DNA.

In showbiz sometimes, we're a little disgruntled our budgets are low, sometimes our buildings aren't that great and the sets aren't so cool, and all of a sudden you have these security teams showing up poking around on set and you're on high alert.