Top 66 Showbiz Quotes

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

Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.

Showbiz works well when you give the audience what they want.

My parents used to throw great New Year’s Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.

If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.

What we’re supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this bubble of showbiz and you only know people who make movies, you don’t really have an understanding of the world outside.

I’m part of a great job where I get paid to learn. My first brush with the world of showbiz happened when I got selected while I auditioned for ‘Dhoom Machao Dhoom’ at my college in Delhi.

I have been called ‘Bongshell’ the day I stepped into showbiz. So, any adjective coming my way, I take it positively. Sometimes it’s also entertaining, but I don’t feel bad about it. I’m a proud woman.

My parents were involved in everything I did. They were showbiz people themselves. My dad was an actor. They were parents; they did what parents are supposed to do.

My upbringing gave me a lot of backbone and prepared me well for showbiz. It could throw anything at me and I could take it.

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

I went to church as a kid, but mainly for the showbiz aspect. I remember doing a solo of ‘The Little Drummer Boy’ and everyone singing the rup-a-pum-pums.

It’s feast or famine in showbiz.

When I was child, I was intoxicated by celebrities, showbiz and theatre, but from a child’s perspective, where they seem far away.

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.

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

I think it’s particularly fun not being a full-time showbiz reporter because you still have the ‘Oh, wow!’ factor when you go out on the red carpet and there are these big stars that are standing there. But if you’re doing this day in and day out, it becomes a little blase.

My college life was brief because I started working for my debut film when I was in eleventh standard. But I have no regrets, as I stayed in touch with my friends who keep briefing me about the drama in the college. The opportunity to get into showbiz was so exciting that I couldn’t let it pass by.

You cannot open a major New York restaurant today and not be aware that showbiz will play a role.

I don’t want to be the crazy showbiz family. When I walk into the PTA meetings with my sensible flat shoes and my sensible short wig, I do not look crazy.

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.

Showbiz is just there to give people something to talk about.

I’m having a tough time coping in showbiz. I’m absolutely terrified of it. Each time you walk out, somebody wants to click a picture.

Although I’ve got lots of pals in showbiz, I haven’t got that many close friends.

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

When I was in N.W.A. and didn’t get paid all the money I was owed, that’s when the business side of showbiz hit me.

WWE is like showbiz boot camp.

Also, the more you’re not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.

Akshai is well-known in his own field but not part of showbiz. I think that was very important for me. I wanted to marry outside the film industry.

Although early on, I did not think of showbiz, I dreamed of being on TV and becoming a celebrity.

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.

Karl Lagerfeld is the hardest-working man in showbiz!

My dad was a laborer. And he used to get up at 5:30 every morning. He worked for 50 years of his life, in all weathers for, by showbiz standards, petty cash. I remind myself of that when I feel a little bit spoiled or hard done by.

The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.

‘Doctor Who’ has a certain amount of showbiz attached to it.

My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don’t understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.

There is absolutely nothing you can’t do, see, eat or buy in Las Vegas. It is a magical wonderland where everything is possible – especially in the world of showbiz where everything feels so big, bright and spectacular.

People tend to disappear from showbiz because they cant wait between two projects, which often takes a lot of time.

If your mom asks you to do the dishes, do not pull out your pirate attitude. But if someone tells you you’re not good enough, says your dreams are too lofty, or claims there is no room in showbiz for a dancing violinist – well then, by all means, pull out your eye patch, my friend, and take to the high seas.

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.

‘Gypsy’ is the ultimate stage-mother story: Mama Rose is the one who should have been a star; she’s the one with the talent. But she chose to have kids and put her dreams into them. The musical shows the power of showbiz and how much it can mean to someone.

When you have a baby in showbiz, people think you’ve died.

I hope I’m thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way – someone who is a human being as well as an actress.

What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.

The part of my personality that most irritated my husband, some of our big, big disagreements were when I got what he called ‘showbiz.’ He meant flamboyant or raucous.

I’m a fan of people that have quality, that do what they do, and that are not into the showbiz.

A beautiful face with a sexy body is a dime a dozen in showbiz. When you have magnetic personality, you beat everybody else.

I don’t think anyone thought showbiz people know anything. I would suggest interview subjects, were told they weren’t such great ideas, and then they would be assigned to somebody else. I wasn’t given anything to do. I felt like the highest-paid dress extra in the world.

Fortunately, I’m known as the hardest-working woman in showbiz, not to compete with James Brown. I’ve always been a multi-tasker.

My sister and I both benefited hugely from the great security that our parents had given us, and then we went off and squandered it all rushing around in showbiz.

My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called ‘Hey, Dude.’ That was my first real paid scriptwriting job.

As I had visualized, ‘Heroine’ is shaping up to be a very contemporary film with a different premise and strata. This film, like most of my other films, is a blend of facts and fiction. The film has a larger span, more characters, and costumes… a journey that revolves around an actress’s life and the showbiz.

One of my friend calls me ‘lost to showbiz’, but that’s only because I don’t go for a drink as often as he’d like, because I’m always working. I’ve met very few famous people who are lost to showbiz – I have met some, mind.

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.

A little showbiz never hurt anyone.

I was raised as a tomboy with boys, and I never really feel like myself when I am really dolled up at premieres and showbiz events.

I’m not into the whole showbiz scene.

I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren’t showbiz people. But going back was strange, and perhaps stranger for the other students.

I like to be human and not lose myself in becoming a mannequin, which people in showbiz are accused of.

I know how things function in showbiz and how much hard work is required to make a mark in this industry.

A lot of the music I was inspired by growing up – college rock, DIY, what they used to call indie rock – has a value system where truth-telling and authenticity are oppositional with mass media, showbiz, and commerce.

Because I don’t go to showbiz parties, I don’t have the right image. The media decides who’s in and who’s out.