Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry.
‐‐ Michael Keaton
Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
‐‐ Tamara Tunie
Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.
‐‐ Martin Mull
Show business is like a bumpy bus ride. Sometimes you find yourself temporarily juggled out of your seat and holding onto a strap. But the main idea is to hang in there and not be shoved out the door.
‐‐ Cliff Robertson
Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.
‐‐ Minnie Pearl
Show business is my life.
‐‐ Lewis Grizzard
Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.
‐‐ Don Rickles
Show business is not conducive to mental stability. It's a constant rollercoaster of adrenaline spikes and devastating let-downs. There's something about seeing a face from the telly in real life that makes people deranged.
‐‐ Tom Hollander
Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.
‐‐ Marc Maron
Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
‐‐ Taylor Hackford
Show business is part of a larger culture, a world-wide culture that must make up to the fact that the accumulation of things doesn't make a life necessary any happier or purposeful.
‐‐ Tom Shadyac
Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.
‐‐ Anita Loos
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.
‐‐ Joan Rivers
Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.
‐‐ John Guare
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
‐‐ Paul Bryant
Show, don't tell, is a mantra repeated by tutors of creative writing courses the world over. As advice for amateurs, it is sound and helps avoid character profiling, unactivated scenes, and broken narrative frames.
‐‐ Sarah Hall
Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do.
‐‐ Bo Bennett
Show me a better man. Name one and I am answered; but do not point, as a disqualification, to the very facts which make this man fit beyond all others.
‐‐ Roscoe Conkling
Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
‐‐ Fawn M. Brodie
Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.
‐‐ Joe E. Lewis
Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
‐‐ Julie Burchill
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
‐‐ Austin O'Malley
Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
‐‐ Knute Rockne
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
‐‐ Vince Lombardi
Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
‐‐ Leo Durocher
Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser.
‐‐ Paul Newman
Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.
‐‐ Sandy Koufax
Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
‐‐ Lou Brock
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
‐‐ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Show me a highly successful person in any field that has gotten there having a weak ego. You have to believe in yourself, and you have to believe in what you're doing.
‐‐ Craig Venter
Show me a mall, and I'm happy.
‐‐ Julia Roberts
Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.
‐‐ Henry R. Luce
Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.
‐‐ James Patrick Murray
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
‐‐ Charles Bukowski
Show me a man with a million dollars, and I'll show you a million guys trying to take it away from him.
‐‐ Mickey Rooney
Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.
‐‐ Joe E. Lewis
Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.
‐‐ Joe E. Lewis
Show me a person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag.
‐‐ Julia Roberts
Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.
‐‐ Joan Collins
Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.
‐‐ Robert Baden-Powell
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
‐‐ Carl Jung
Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.
‐‐ Irwin Winkler
Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
‐‐ Vanilla Ice
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
‐‐ Thomas A. Edison
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
‐‐ Erica Jong
Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.
‐‐ Tom Clancy
Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story - I don't think they exist.
‐‐ Patricia Polacco
Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
‐‐ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Show me any health professional - great and not so great - who says they don't make mistakes or haven't made one in years, and I'll show you someone who has trouble admitting the truth.
‐‐ Brian Goldman
Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.
‐‐ Bobby Darin