Quotes About Showbiz

I was on a show called '12 Miles of Bad Road' with Lily Tomlin - it was an incredible HBO show. We shot 6 episodes, previewed it before the finale of 'The Sopranos;' it was written up as a 'Great New Show on HBO,' and then the whole thing was canned. Gone. Disappeared. That's when I realized anything can happen in this business.

We knew all along we were making a good show, so its success was not a surprise to me. What has surprised me is the magnitude of this show's success. More people see me now in one episode than saw me in 20 years of movies and theater!

We were at the Schubert Theater for two years. And we were the first act.

My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

Be enthusiastic. Remember the placebo effect — 30% of medicine is showbiz.

I thought she'd [her mother] offer me some sympathy. Instead, she said, 'Don't you ever call me crying again! You wanted to be in this business, so you better toughen up!' And I did.

But almost from the beginning, Vallee's special ability as a talent scout came to the fore. He plucked Alice Faye out of the chorus in George White's Scandals and sent her to vocal and film stardom. He found Frances Langford singing on a small station in Florida. Beatrice Lillie, Milton Berle, and Phil Baker got their first major radio exposure on the Vallee show.

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'

I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.

Showbiz celebrity couple throws party at their every wedding anniversary for mainly two reasons; First, for publicity and second,just to prove to the people that the compatibility still exists between them.

I grew up around the business quite a bit; I saw a little bit of the underbelly of it.

I appeared on 'Pantomine Quiz' and played occasional night club dates.

I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.

I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business.

There is a theory in showbiz circles that mentally you remain the same age as when you first tasted fame, and I think there is a grain of truth in this.

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

I don't think that they know fully what's happening with Miss Match so therefore I don't know how many more if any, if the show's even gonna keep going.

Everybody thinks it's going to be so glamorous, so cool, you're on 'Glee,' you know, a hit show or whatever.

I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz.

Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you're real and brutally honest. Yellow is with my kids[...]The bundle of bright yellow warming my core, formerly frozen and uninhabitable[...]They got yellow from me, and I felt yellow giving it to them and it was all good[...]So, why am I leaving my show? It took my yellow. I wanted it back. Without it I can't live. The gray kills me.

I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

I was born into the business. My mother was an entertainer. It was natural. But yes, in the next life, I might not do it.