Quotes About Showbiz

It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor.

My first show was at Here Lounge in West Hollywood.

I mean, we had on our show, we had marriages, divorces and other stuff going on. And that was just me.

Lennie Golden. Son of crusty old Jack Golden, a stand-up Vegas hack, and the unstoppable Alice – or 'Alice the Swizzle' as his mother was known in her heyday as a 'now you see 'em – now you don't' Las Vegas stripper.

Helen Lawson: They drummed you out of Hollywood, so you come crawling back to Broadway. But Broadway doesn't go for booze and dope. Now get out of my way, I've got a man waiting for me.

I grew up in a show biz family and, if you wanted to talk at the dinner table, you'd better be prepared to talk about film.

Sitcom food is by far the tastiest of all showbiz food.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.

And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.

My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.

We're gonna have to sweeten some of these jokes. That's a showbiz term for "Add sugar to".

Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.

Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

singing and dancing more than nudity. For many years, a 54-year-old woman who went by the stage name Mistinguett had reigned over the Casino as its chief performer, but Varna believed a staged rivalry between the two women would attract more patrons.