Show Biz – Quotes

In any other job,

In any other job, they’re truck drivers. In show-biz, they’re Transportation Captains. Drew Carey

My father when walked

My father when walked into a room, you could tell that everybody loved him. They really did. He was quite a man. My mother was more into the show biz atmosphere than he was. Don Rickles

I just wanted to

I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry – and charge you $ 8.50 David Lee Roth

Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, ‘Who is that singing? I don’t like the singing.’ And then she says ‘Who’s doing all that bumpety-bump noise?’ It’s all noise backing up horrible singing as far as she’s concerned. She’s not a show-biz mother. … Read more

Conventional show-biz savvy held

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire. Carroll O’Connor

I always liked show

I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing. Bill Nye

I try to please

I try to please people, to give them a good time, but I refuse to make my act conform to traditional show-biz standards of entertainment. There’s a little voice that says, ‘Oh, no, you can’t do that, that’s breaking all the rules.’ That’s the voice of show business. Then this other little voice says, ‘Try … Read more

I’d still like to

I’d still like to see ‘Survivor’ minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business – I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else’s foot. Albert Brooks