Show Quotes

Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that.

You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.

I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.

I had no idea what to expect when we did Ladies' Night. I didn't think it was going to get nominated for a Grammy. I didn't know that we would have to perform on the MTV Awards show.

My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina.

We are called to show utter commitment to the God who is revealed in Jesus and to all those to whom His invitation is addressed.

I don't return anybody's calls unless it's going to mean extra money for me. And I've completely cut off all relationships with any friends that I had before the show. And I've copped an attitude.

It's show business. No show, no business.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

As the 29th state to join the United States of America, it is our turn to show the nation what represents Iowa. Our commitment to quality education, hard work, and small-town values are all represented in the Iowa quarter.

Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.

I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.

I lived to be on stage, and I'm terrified. Terrified before every show.

For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.

Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.

I never set out to do a sketch show.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

I can remember crying on the set of Beverly Hills 90210 after being released from the show a few years ago.

I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.

I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.

There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.

It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.

It slows down grocery shopping, because so many women at the store watch the show. I always end up talking to two or three people every time I go to Ralphs. It's fun.

I have a girlfriend, but I don't really want to talk about her. I won't name her. She isn't in show business, has nothing to do with it. So I'd rather just keep her out of it.