quotations about show business
Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.
JOHN GUARE
London Independent, April 25, 1992
Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.
attributed, Life Upon the Wicked Stage: A Sociological Study of Entertainers
I'm ... still running to the next show, coming alive under the lights, still making love to an audience that I know will go home and make love to one another and leave me alone again.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.
attributed, Life Upon the Wicked Stage: A Sociological Study of Entertainers
Show business is global, and its history is millennial: international and historical terms, and the richness of slang, idioms, and expressions, suggest how fascinating is the world of those whose business it is to amuse us.
ROBERT BLUMENFELD
Blumenfeld's Dictionary of Acting and Show Business
Street wise, cat's eye's
Show business smile
Lookin' for today's mark
On the golden mile
Book wise, movie eyed
So cool dudes.
Ain't gonna do no talking
When they find out they been used.
NAZARETH
"Turning a New Leaf"
Diving through a looking glass
Just like the greatest stars
You don't have to be yourself
Change into someone else
Pace another sound bite
Make a million overnight
Give up your private life
Spotlight shines so bright
Show business
ELEKTRIC MUSIC
"Show Business"
Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.
TOMMY STEELE
London Listener, October 10, 1974