Quotes About Showbiz

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.

Despite being in showbiz, I have a very real approach to my life. It plays off with my social life.

Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life.

She had quite possibly drifted into acting because of her father's connections in showbiz. It would have been that or some sort of PR or work in a posh Mayfair art gallery. I also remembered his divorce, which had been all over the papers. He had left his wife for a model not all that much older than his daughter.

There's no money in television, but TV provides the wherewithal to get the dollars for live performances.

There are times when adverse publicity has hit my life, but these things are the growing pains of showbiz marriage.

A microphone pack once fell down my knickers and nearly pulled my pants down.

I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.

We all know showbiz isn't easy, but being a comic - especially being a female comic - can be quite punishing.

We already do a couple numbers with chairs - chairs being a classic, Bob Fosse-ish, showbizzy prop, but the punk element is that it's just me and Stephanie and this funky band from Austin.

My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.

Show business is - you're there by somebody's fluke. And as long as somebody likes you, and the show is going well, you're fine. I'd do anything. There's so much I want to do.

I loved Bob Hope and the way he would turn to the camera and break the fourth wall.

As women, we tend to take the easy way out in showbiz. I have done movies where all I did was look pretty in every frame.

Frankly, I've had it with this show-business stuff. But I love 'Gunsmoke' and I love the guys I work with.

'Breaking In' shows what it's really like backstage at New York Fringe Theatre.

I was born in front of a camera and really don't know anything else.

I used to see my friend Harland Williams in a lot of auditions. Then you'd see one of the DeLuise kids because they're kind of heavy and character-y. You'd just see a lot of the same guys over the years.

When I first went out on the road with Larry Williams, there was also, like, The Coasters, The Drifters, and The Flamingos.

I went on the Andy Williams show, the Smothers Brothers show, and maybe I shouldn't have. But regrets - I don't think I have any.

The first thing I did was 'Ziegfeld Follies,' a small bit en pointe with Fred Astaire.

I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.

I'm in love with everything about show business. The only thing that ever came easy to me in life has been acting.