Show Biz Quotes

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

  Klaus Schulze

  Black And White, World, Good And Bad

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. May 1997.

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• Peak oil is already upon us. It is destroying our banking system, that is, our system for marshalling capital, and that is about to put us out of business-as-usual. So, we have to carry on with business-not-so-usual. This could mean anything from your children finding careers in farming (rather than show biz or plastic surgery) to reorganizing households differently to traveling from New York to Boston by boat.

  James Howard Kunstler

  New York, Children, Mean

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• Of course, the toxic bullshit of incessant advertising and show biz for nearly a century has stripped us of cognitive abilities for dealing with reality that used to be part of the normal equipment of adulthood - for instance, knowing the difference between wishing for stuff and making stuff happen. We bamboozled ourselves with too much magic.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Reality, Differences, Knowing

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• 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

  Mother, Father, Men

  Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com

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• I try to impart this when people say they want to be a writer and they want to go into show biz. I say, "Well, have you taken any courses? You can't just have a passion for it; you have to prepare yourself for a life of it."

  Larry Wilmore

  Taken, Passion, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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 it.' And most of the time, when the voice comes on and says, 'No,' that's the time it works.

  Andy Kaufman

  Voice, People, Giving

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• In any other job, they're truck drivers. In show-biz, they're Transportation Captains.

  Drew Carey

  Jobs, Captains, Truck

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• You might be a redneck if your sophisticated show-biz cousin is a rodeo clown.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Cousin, Redneck, Might

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• I have one show biz picture in my house. It's with Mr. Hope. I have asked for one autograph in my life: Mr. Hope's.

  Henry Cho

  House, Shows, Autographs

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• 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.

  Colin Greenwood

  Mother, Play, Singing

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• I got to wear pancake makeup because you know I'm a show biz professional and they all wear pancake makeup. I got to drink free cokes!

  Levi Johnston

  Makeup, Coke, Pancakes

  Source: manhattaninfidel.org

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• We're gonna have to sweeten some of these jokes for the CD. You know what sweeten means, right? Sweeten is a show-biz term for "add sugar to".

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Mean, Humor

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• Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Satire, Hated, Shows

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• But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it.

  Rob Sheffield

  Stars, Years, Mtv

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• 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

  Stories, Cry, Shows

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

  Bill Nye

  Training, Boeing, Film

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• 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.

  Micky Dolenz

  Mom, Father, Play

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• 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

  Feet, Would Be, Survivor

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• 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.

  John Orloff

  Tables, Dinner, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• If we admit it or not, skiing is a little bit of show biz

  Willy Bogner, Jr.

  Littles, Skiing, Shows

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• I remember being at the premiere of 'Beverly Hills Cop II' and the tremendous reaction from the crowd outside, then going to a party at a hotel afterwards where the speakers were blasting 'Shakedown,' a song from the movie. That felt like a show biz moment to me.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Song, Party, Beverly Hills

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